Many have probably experienced a situation in which someone who is close to them disappear or almost disappear in a second. I have. When I was 10 years old, I experienced an emergency in which I almost lost someone who is extremely close to me, my mom. In the emergency, I found out that I could have lost my mom to cancer. Apparently, she has been unknowingly dealing with colon cancer and when the pain surpassed her limit she went to the hospital. When she arrived to the hospital, she had passed out and the doctors told my father to prepare for the worst and if she were to pass who would the doctor have to notify. I wasn’t there at that time because I was really young but when my mother told me about this I felt like my world had completely…show more content… His brother grabs a microphone and then is electrocuted. After being electrocuted, he is taken to the hospital where they performed CPR. Thankfully, they were able to bring him back to life and later on the author goes to visit his half-brother. His brother is in critical condition afterwards. When the author goes and sees his brother, his brother wakes up. At first, his brother opens his eyes and closes them. The doctor then told John (the author) that his brother’s brain when he was electrocuted, received the most damage and that his brain was at vegetable level. In the next couple weeks, his brother regains his energy; however, his brain still isn’t normal. I was surprised that the author didn’t break down because his brother almost died, instead, he copes with the emergency using humor actually. Even though his brother’s brain is still at vegetable level, the author finds humor through the way he acts. For example, his brother accuses the author of imitating his brother and speaks of the weirdest thing. The author coped with an emergency that happened in his life similar to the way I had coped with my mother’s emergency. However, the emergency that I coped with, contained no humor and the way I coped with the emergency was different of how he found humor through his brother’s
