It was a cool, windy February day. There were hard patches of icy snow lying on the ground, sort of a splatter paint of black and brown coloring on it. There were three of us Jeffery, Ben, and I. We were longboarding to downtown Loveland like we did on most Wednesdays, it was almost a routine. We had always walked down the one-way hill to Loveland Sweets, but it was always fun to go a little ways down on the longboards. On this particular day, Ben said, “ I bet I could get down the farthest.” I was not going to lose. It was my turn and I started speeding down the hill, the wind was making my luscious locks flow. There was no efficient way of stopping on my longboard which was a problem. I was past Ben and going faster than ever before and …show more content…
I got the news that my spleen was ruptured and I was internally bleeding. I was lying there with an IV in each arm, and the trauma surgeon came in. He spoke in a thick Italian accent, spoke with authority, and said, “ We are going to airlift your son to Children’s hospital. The helicopter will be here soon.” My heart sank. At that point I was scared to death. I was loaded onto a stretcher and wheeled out to the helicopter. I heard one of the doctors say under their breath, “This is a lot worse than we thought.” It felt like there was a tornado and sounded like a machine gun to me outside because of the helicopter. The ride was wonderful. I got to fly over the zoo while Harambe was still there and see all of the city. When I got to Children’s, I was rushed out immediately and before I knew what was happening I was surrounded by 100 white lab coats and thousands of questions were whizzing by me. Being in the ICU was one of my favorite parts, all my siblings showed up. They were all crying, worried and they had left school early just to see me. They brought a smile to my face that hadn’t been seen in a long time. The next 24 hours went quickly thanks to the Xbox and medication the nurses had brought me. After nearly 36 hours of being at a hospital, I was finally released from the white