Surgery-Personal Narrative

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Ever since I was little, I had always been like a brave knight, fighting through problems as of they were fierce dragons blowing their fire at me while I swung my sword at them. But one thing that was different was, knights didn’t have to fight surgery as often as I did. Even if I have already gone through multiple surgeries, I've always hated to go through a painful and frightening surgery. I was always scared of the feeling of a shot going through my skin and did not like the aroma of medicine and sanitizer in a hospital environment. After conquering eight whole “frightening” surgeries, I decided to change my way of getting through them by admitting to myself that I was in fact pretty brave to get through many difficult surgeries. After …show more content…
No! it is NOT going to be alright.” As we got closer and closer to the hospital, as the revengeness of forever time ticked non-stop, I got more nervous as my heart sank further down in my stomach. When we had gotten to the hospital, I was so scared to face reality. I didn’t want to face reality. When we had parked in front of the hospital entrance, my heart had already reached the pit of my stomach. I neglected getting of the car, however my legs were already dragging me out by then. I don’t why because I really didn’t want to. I was like my mind was on total control of me, just doing whatever I was supposed to do. I went inside the hospital confident, until we got into the lobby. I was already freaking out and thinking about what was about to happen. The temptation was irresistible and overwhelming and a few seconds later, I began hopelessly crying . I was so scared and I wanted to run back home, no matter how far it was, no matter how hard it was to get there. When they called my name, my first thought was that the first thing that was about to happen was that they would give me the shot to put
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