Personal Story

A really important event in my life, is when I was going to third grade, and I went through a glass door. When this happened to me, I was with my best friend, and my best friend’s parents, without my mom. The first thing that her parents told us, was to not run outside, because there were lot of glass doors. We where at their apartment at the beach, my friend Claudia and I were in the pool, her mom Hamdy called us from inside the apartment to tell us that the food was ready. As I said before, her mom told us not to run, but I was so hungry I completely forgot, and I ran to the house. It was about seven pm, when there is a weir light, and you cant see the glass. Like we where in the pool my feet were wet, and the floor was slipery. When I finally realized that the glass door was there, I tried to stop, but like my feet were wet, I couldn’t stop, so I slided and crashed the door. Instead of going through it, I kind of bounced, and all of the glass fell on me. Claudia, was behind me, and she catched me, before I hitted the ground that had all of the glass. But like we had bathing siuts, there was nothing to protect my body from the glass, and I got horrible cuts in my knee and in my arm. When Claudia’s dad, Miguel, relized what happened, he carried me to the car, and took me to the hospital.

In the hospital they didn’t know that I was alergic to a type of anestesia, and it made me have a wrong reaction. Claudia’s parents wanted to take me to a hospital here in Caracas, in an ambulance, but all of the ambulances were in La Guaira, and we were in Higuerote, so her dad, finally decided that they were going to take me in his car, with a nurse. While all of this happened I was unconsious, in the middle of the ride back to Caracas, I woke up, and asked for someone, and I saw a weird person holding me, and then I fell uncomcious again. What I remember after the ride home, was that all my family was there in the emergency room, and I told my mom, that what were they doing in Higuerote. Another thing that I remember, is when they took me to the E.R, that I saw a whole bunch of doctors around me, and a told them to please not cut my new bathing suit (obviouly they didn’t listen, and they cutted it).

The day after I arrived, was when Claudia,and her parents, came to visit me to the hospital, they brought me a big plush toy, that I called Sombra, because it was a Cheetah. I still keep this plush toy, like one of my favorites, because it is really pretty, and I have it since that horrible accident. I think that this is the most important thing that has happened to me in my whole life, because I had the support of my whole family, and friends, and also the support of my best friend that I know since I was in pre-school.

But that was the worst moment to have an accident, because I was changing from a school to another one, and I couldn't do anything, because I had a full leg cast, and my arm was immobilized, so at first it was really hard to meet new people, because of my condition at that moment. I was really lucky that Claudia, and Lucia that were my best friends at my other school, were changing to the same school.