The Big Catastrophe!

Authors Note: This piece one of my personal narratives and is about a memory from in fourth grade.  

I jumped up on to the tree stump leading to the actual climbing tree, and there I was, at the start of my journey to the top of the tree.  Minutes later I was at the top of the tree when I had shouted “Mission accomplished!" to Emily. In just a few seconds a big gust of wind had made a big branch hit my back and threw me off the tree. That was when it had started, the day I broke my foot.

"Come on dad! When are we going to be at the hospital?!? You need to drive a little faster...." I said with pain in my voice. He responded by saying "Just a couple of more minutes....we will be there shortly; Just sit tight.”  I closed my eyes and thought of a happy place.  As soon as I opened my eyes I noticed the big blurry red letters that spelled out “Emergency Room”.  My dad had carried me inside the room like I was a baby again cradling my swollen foot.  He set me down in a comfortable chair and went to go check in to the desk.  In less than five minutes I was in a room with a clamp on my finger asking my dad when my mom would be there.  He kept saying she would be here shortly and that everything would turn out to be fine.  I knew it was true I just wasn't entirely convinced yet.  My mom walked in the room quick and fast.  You could see the worry in her eyes.  Just by the look on her face you could tell that she doesn't see her daughter lying in a hospital bed every day.

Right then the doctor rushed in the room with good news, and bad news also. He had told us that I needed to wear a splint for a couple of days until I go to the radiology specialists. They would take an x-ray of my foot to see what happened. Just a week later I was at the radiology offices getting my foot x-rayed and had found out I fractured my foot. The 3 middle metatarsals in my foot were fractured and I would need to be getting a cast in the next week. He made it sound good and told me I would be as good as new in no time at all. 

 Over all there are many things that you could have fun with in the outdoors....and at that time I realized, after that catastrophe...There's no way I am jumping out of another tree again.