Breaking My Wrist-Personal Narrative

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“Are you okay?” Morgan, one of my best friends, asks. “What hurts?” she added. “My wrist! It hurts so badly. I need help, please call someone.” Overcoming the adversity of breaking my wrist was harder than I thought it was going to be. It was not so much the pain, well at first it was the pain, but when I got over that, it was more of what I had to do to get over the mental shock of breaking my wrist. What helped me get over the that shock was humor and independence. Without those life skills, I don’t know how I would have overcome the adversity. The cause of my adversity might have been not paying attention on my bike and falling. I was not paying attention because I was laughing too hard. My friend almost fell and we were cracking up about …show more content…

I could not play as hard with my friends. An example of that would be jumping on the trampoline because the blood would get in between my split bone. I also couldn't do a lot of physical activities like playing soccer,riding my bike,and playing football or other hand sports. I was also able to teach myself how to handle pain. So instead of screaming and crying in pain I would take a deep breath and say to myself this is too much for me right now I might see if I can do this later. Finally, I now know things like how humor is a great way to make myself feel better. And independence is really an important life skill to know how to …show more content…

I had to be able to ask myself questions like how am I feeling today and other things like that. This was so important because if I did not ask myself these questions I could end up hurting myself because I did not take the time to see if this was a smart idea. This was also important because I had to stand up for myself by saying to my friends that I should probably rest, but maybe later. This was important because again if I am already not feeling great, and if I do the activity I might hurt myself even more. This was important for me to know because I definitely did not want to be an any more pain than I was already was