planned. I was still fourteen by the time I experienced my first concussion. The day was absolutely beautiful. The sun was scorching everyone’s skin as we all raced to my school’s dirt field searching for the shade the trees would throw across the ground‚ but the excitement that was building in everyone was by far more intense than the heat. Today was the day that my class was allowed to play flag football‚ an event we had all been looking forward to since the start of the fourth quarter. The
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the buzzer that beckoned me to the block. I mounted the block and fastened my goggles tight against my face. I wrapped my toes around the edge of the block and peered down into the clear light blue water. Next‚ a voice spoken from over a speaker told swimmers to “take their mark”. I bent down and within a couple seconds‚ the buzzer went off and I dove into the water. Many memories such as this one come to mind when I think about my first swim meet. My first swim meet is an experience that is very meaningful
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At first‚ I didn’t find the database to be useful. My first search was neonatal and nurse practitioner which I got one-hundred and eighty-nine results. I narrowed my the search to find better articles that will help me find a topic. I changed the publication dates from 2011 to 2016‚ full text‚ and source type as a magazine. After the changes‚ the search result was one‚ and I it was not useful because it was about an Australian nurse and diabetes. Additionally‚ the article didn’t have anything to
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Everyday I go to the barn at four o’clock to bring in our horses‚ give them grain‚ hay‚ and water. The chores at night would take about an hour maybe a little while longer‚ but they quickly taught me to be responsible. While brining in the horses sounds easy‚ thats not always the case. At one point while I was bringing in my first horse I looked down at the legs and everything seemed to be fine. No cuts‚ no scrapes‚ and the horse was walking how he should be. I hear a loud noise coming from down
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The first day of tryouts at my new high school was going extremely well. Socializing on the sideline‚ I thought‚ “Maybe high school isn’t going to be that bad after all.” However‚ The last drill of the day destroyed my hopes for making the lacrosse team. Running toward the goal‚ I felt a massive pop in my hip. A ligament had torn‚ and I could hardly walk. For weeks as I hobbled along on my cane‚ I would catch people staring at me in the hallways. Whether the cane or just low self-confidence‚ I never
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always proceeds when I spot a dog. An excitable‚ breathy‚ “Dog!” escapes my mouth and I always scurry over to the dog’s owner and asks if I can pet them. I’ve owned two dogs in my lifetime‚ and lived with another. I’m what some people would call a dog person. So for some‚ it might be unsurprising to find out that I credit a lot of how I am to dogs. My first dog was a disaster. I’d gotten a Shih-Tzu as a seventh birthday present. She forewent obedience training and socialization. I didn’t walk her‚
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finally November 17th and the first morning of two-a-day basketball practice. I had been looking forward to the season and was fixed on finding a spot in the starting lineup. Despite my determination‚ I was out of shape after having been home sick for the past month. During one of the drills I became very light-headed and fell and hit my head on the hard-wood court. Immediately‚ I jumped up and tried to continue practicing. I finished the practice and made my way to first hour with a dizzying and
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At the age of two my parents decided I had too much energy and they enrolled me in my first gymnastics class. As a female you train four events: vault‚ bars‚ beam‚ and floor. I went to class once a week for two years and at the age of four I joined the competitive team. As a competitive gymnast‚ you train year round and a minimum of 10 hours a week is spent in the gym. Some schools even require additional classes in ballet in order to improve the dance side of gymnastics. During the competitive
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“Why did I have to be born like this? Why can’t I just be normal?!” As a young girl‚ this phrase often escaped my lips. It was difficult to understand why I had to endure such an awful thing. Waking up in the hospital in pain while all my friends were out playing was something I just couldn’t wrap my head around. When I was born‚ I was diagnosed with a condition called fibular hemimelia. I am missing my fibula‚ a bone in the lower part of my leg‚ and one toe on my left foot. In addition to these
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The first life lesson I learned was to never take anything for granted‚ especially life. It is a miracle that I was born because my mom had a rare bone cancer that almost took her life at the age of thirteen. She had a twenty percent chance of surviving‚ beat the odds‚ defied her experimental treatment and gave birth to me. There was an eighty percent chance that I would not be alive today and that makes me appreciate everything in life. Osteogenic sarcoma was the rare bone cancer my mom was diagnosed
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