Personal Narrative: Playing Basketball

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I was on the top of the world in my freshman year in high school; playing basketball was the world to me. I would remember my family saying I’m going to make it big one day. Half way through the session I had a tar in my ACL (Anterior cruciate ligament) and had excess fluid in my left knee; I was out for the rest of the session. I couldn’t play my favorite sport in the world; which honestly killed me in the inside. I couldn’t walk and do simple things that I would like to do at the time. To start off, I couldn’t play basketball at all for the rest of the session. I was at very game wishing I could play just five to ten minutes; instead I would just sit there and see all my teammate in dispirit need of a center. The current center that took my starting spot in the lineup was so bad he couldn’t make a layup. I remember one …show more content…
I had to leave my class before everyone else, so I wouldn’t get caught up in the hallway between class. I also wasn’t allowed to participate in my favorite class which was P.E. I couldn’t go to the mall and watch movies. When I would go to shower, I wound have so much pain under my armpit form using crutches all day long. To get from my bed to the bathroom at nights was a mission, because I had to hop down the stairs; then I had to hop right bake up to go back to bed.
Most of all, the pain I was having was the worst I have ever felt in my eighteen years of living. Every time I would try to walk it would feel like if someone was stabbing me many times in the same place. I was constantly taking Advil, Aleve, and Tylenol to try and make the pain go away but it just wouldn’t. When I would go to the doctors they would ask me to tell them how much it was hurting me and must of the time I couldn’t explain it to them; I would just say it’s hurting non-stop, and it feels like I broke something. After I would say that the doctor response with “I can assure you didn’t brake