Personal Narrative: Rehabbing
When I was eleven years old, I tore my anterior cruciate ligament, more commonly known as the ACL while playing in a football game. Being only eleven years old, this was a pretty unusual injury as most ACL tears do not happen until mid to later teens. Hearing that I tore my ACL was pretty devastating. I did not know much about it, but I knew enough to know I would be out of sports for a long time. The next nine months of my life were spent with one goal in mind: getting back to sports. When I look back on the months post-surgery, it really makes me realize how much the event influenced me. Rehabbing was one of the most intensive experiences of my life thus far. It was a lot of work doing the exercises every day, but when I finally was cleared
Personal Narrative: Grit Not To Give Up Playing Football
235 Words | 1 PagesWhen I partially tore my ACL I had to show grit not to give up playing football. It was during warmups for a football game in 7th grade. The offense was all lined up with me as an outside receivor with Derrick on the inside. When Nick hiked the ball I raced to the cornerback ,who happened to be Ethan Goodwin, and started blocking him. Then the whistle blew so I looked over at Nick to see what happened and realized that that he had just thrown the ball.
Personal Narrative: My Soccer Recovery
399 Words | 2 PagesSophomore year I was playing at a soccer tournament with my old team. I was playing a great game even though the score was not reflecting my hard work. Towards the end of the game I jumped up caught the ball landed, my body went one way and my legs went the other, then I fell to the ground. Everyone around me had heard a pop, I knew it was my ACL. From this moment in my soccer career I knew I needed to be determined and to be focused on my recovery in order to get back out there.
Personal Narrative: The Legacy Program
872 Words | 4 PagesUnable to straighten my leg I became very panicked but my coach assured me that I would be ok. Little did he know that it was going to be a life altering injury. The next day I went to my doctor’s office to get my knee checked out (I was still worried because my knee was still
Personal Narrative: One Recovery
583 Words | 3 PagesThe transition from eighth grade to ninth grade is one of the most difficult but unforgettable things a student must do in his adolescence. For me, it was filled with new opportunities of taking Ap classes and joining clubs. One of these cubs was Youth and Government (Y&G). For as long as I can remember my brother, Riad, has boasted about how amazing Y&G is and how it has changed his life. My brother is three years older then me, so as a freshman he was a senior in Y&G.
Personal Narrative: The Healing Relationship
155 Words | 1 PagesThere are so many people around me facing relationship and marriage issues. I grew up in a single mother household; I haven’t seen a lot of successful marriages in my family. This topic “The Healing Relationship” interested me because I would like to have a successful marriage one day and I have experienced heart break. I believe that counseling is necceassry in relationships because people do struggle with trust issues, couples growing apart and partners fail to communicate their needs. Healing is only way a person to grows, looks past the situation and move on to creating change in their environment.
Personal Narrative: My Therapist
1485 Words | 6 Pages“Oh please! You guys say that you want to move into this new house because it looks great. The real reason is because the commute to my therapist is much faster. I’m fine mom and dad! I don’t need antidepressants nor do I need a therapist.
Anterior Crucial Ligament: How Lesson Changed My Life
595 Words | 3 PagesThat day I tore my Anterior Crucial Ligament in my left knee. This injury not only meant that I could not play volleyball from 6 to 9 months, it meant that I would have to get surgery to fix it. This was devastating to me because volleyball has been my entire life for as long as I can remember. I have been working my whole life to be the best that I can be at it. However, having this injury prevented me from being able to get better at volleyball.
Personal Narrative: My ACL Tear Journey At The Hospital
624 Words | 3 PagesMy ACL Tear Journey At The Hospital A quick turn on a soccer field led me to the worst experience in my life. A while back in my sophomore year I tore my ACL while I was practicing for my first soccer game of the school year. I made a quick turn without positioning my feet correctly on the ground. I thought that I broke my knee, but I never knew that after that day I would have experienced the worst day a month after on February 15th.
Personal Narrative On Personal Injury
666 Words | 3 PagesDuring this time I missed a football season and another basketball season. The only physical activities I could do were the ones I was given by my therapist. Therapy was high-maintenance and was no fun at all. My injury to my knee has affected my life tremendously.
How Football Changed My Life
552 Words | 3 PagesAlthough I have had many injuries growing up, there is one that particularly changed my life for the better. The injury occurred when I was playing eighth grade football. It was August and we were scrimmaging Westfield; a very good team that had a lot of big players. The coach called me onto the field to play fullback, which means that I was probably going to carry the football. As I was running onto the field my heart started to beat a little faster.
Personal Narrative: My Alcoholic Journey
1333 Words | 6 PagesBefore my dad’s death in 1989 I had suffered from mental, sexual, and physical abuse at different times, from different people. I blamed him for not stopping it, for not saving me, and his death added to my pile of excuses to fail. An alcoholic right from the start, I learned how to drink like the pros around me: as fast as I could until the bottle was empty. I found this fun and the lack of accountability was empowering. I hated being weak and I especially hated being the victim, so I became manipulative, and took advantage of the weakness of others.
Personal Narrative: Waking Up From Abuse
816 Words | 4 Pages"Waking Up from Abuse" Awakening to the reality that your entire life has been a lie is about the harshest wake up call you can get. I speak from experience. I've actually done it twice now. The first time I "woke up" was when I finally realized I was the survivor of childhood narcissistic abuse.
Why Running Is Important To Me
657 Words | 3 PagesIt was a life changing experience and made me realize I have something special going. But my eighth grade track season was awful because I tore a ligament in my ankle and didn’t get to run. So this tragedy followed me to high school and I have spent 3 years trying to get to where I should’ve started high school. Freshman
Personal Narrative: Overworked
288 Words | 2 PagesOverworked. That’s the closest word that I could use to describe this week. I feel like this journal is going to be about me just bickering, yet there is some stuff you might want to read about. First of all, I have been sleeping three hours this week because of upcoming midterms, quizzes, and assignments due. I am sleep deprived and mentally drained and as my second year in college I have never had my life drained out of my body like a passing shadow.
Personal Narrative: My Journey With Addiction And Recovery
430 Words | 2 PagesI am still not fully recovered and I most likely won’t ever be, there will always be that little voice inside my head. I started my journey with addiction and recovery the summer before freshman year. Everything changed going into highschool. I started hanging out with different friends, I slacked in school, and my personality was trash.
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