The Collapse-Personal Narrative

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My ordeal was an extremely grueling time; not as wicked as dying, but worse than the flu. I was in a Rhinelander wrestling tournament. I was about to wrestle my friend's step-brother, I was at the side of the mat warming up when all of a sudden my stomach is... is feeling nauseous. I go out to wrestle I get in my stance in the middle of the mat my opponent is facing me, you see the refs hand out of the corner of your eye, he grabs his whistle, my organs at this point are just ready to fall out “tweet” he blows the whistle it is on now my opponent makes the first move he shoots in for a double leg his shoulder going straight into my chest I was about to retch right on him, I settled my stomach down He shoots again missing the first time this time it felt as if his shoulder has gone through me. I feel, I can’t find the power to get back up the ref called a pin instantly I was furious, but at that point, there's nothing to argue about. I told my father what I was feeling, he thought we should be done for the day. …show more content…
My mother and I drive to the Marshfield clinic, we were in the waiting room it felt like forever for someone to come and get us finally after it felt like 30 minutes someone came back “Logan Johnson” the doctor explained, in a sickening voice “here” I said. We go back to the doctor's room, I’m hunched over in the chair in pain. The doctor walked in to ask a few questions about our family medical background. The doctor prescribed me with pills for a belly flu. 1 week later I was still not feeling any better we went back they put me through the cat scan again, that time they found poison inflection in my stomach they look over it more and find my appendix has burst estimating the span of the poison they thought it has been about two weeks since my appendix

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