During the last few months of fifth grade I had nearly lost a leg. Fifth grade is a weird time in elementary school. Students feel ready to go to middle school, but are not there yet. I was in pain. I was not going through emotional pain or the struggle of change, but physical pain. The kind of pain you see doctors for. The pain would increase from day-to-day, but wasn 't quite to the point of hospitalization. One day during gym class, was the day of the inevitable, inconceivable pain that led to my hospitalization. The effects of pain stayed for months after the problem ceased. Before my hospitalization, I had pain that could be considered the level of pain that growing might instigate. During the hospitalization,