Pivotal Point In My Life

What A Year
How can one prepare for a pivotal point in their life? The answer is simple: one can’t. With all the reading and researching only one thing is evident: one cannot see the outcome of one’s life exactly as it will happen. When a pivotal point in my life comes around I realise what is important and what is not. I see how meaningless certain things can become and how one thing can affect me. When I was nine years old, so much had happened for me; my family hosted a foreign exchange student, I had an appendectomy, and my surgical opening from my appendectomy became infected, in that order. With everything going on I had to really look and see what was important for me. I now see that, as a nine-year-old child, I had a few different ideas of what I thought were crucial points in my life, and I now realize how important that year has been to me. Scars are left- internally and externally.
Lily had left a scar on my heart with leaving. Ever since she came to
At around six am the next day, my mother took me to the Coshocton hospital where they ran a few tests and confirmed my mother's suspicion. They sent me to Akron Children's Hospital where I was put under anesthesia and underwent the surgical process to remove my appendix. When I returned to school for the last few weeks before summer, my teacher asked if I wanted to explain what an appendectomy was and I showed them a book my sisters had owned. The book was called Madeline and I read that to them. Madeline is a short story about a girl who had an appendectomy, just like me. That experience was important and was a big deal for a 3rd