I Want to Write About #87

87. Write about when you broke a bone.

When I was younger I used to play softball. I was on the rec team during the spring and the travel team during the summer. I liked hanging out with my friends and I enjoyed playing softball but it was never really my favorite sport. I also had a lot of bad luck with softball becuase I always managed to get hurt somehow. Usually it was just a bruise or a burn from sliding, until one practice when I broke a bone for my first time in my life, and the only time in my life.

I had just gotten to practice and my friend Amanda and I were just warming up, throwing the ball to each other to loosen up. It was the first practice of the spring rec season in 4th grade. The sun was getting lower in the sky and I was looking right into it. When Amanda threw the ball to me I saw it but as I lost sight of it in the sun for just a split second, BAM! I felt a shooting pain right between my eyes as if I just got hit by a brick. I look down and there was blood all over my glove. The coaches and my dad rush over with tissues and I barely know what is happening. They bring me to the dugout as my nose just keeps gushing blood. Everyone is thrusting tissues at me. I can hear Amanda apologizing and my dad trying to make sure I'm okay.

He takes me home and my nose eventually stops bleeding. I go to the doctors that night and get x-rays to find out my nose is broken. I had no clue how they could fix a broken nose, I had never even broken or fractured a bone before. They said I'd be okay I would just have to get the bone fixed through a short procedure and wear a strap over my nose for a week or so. I was very nervous getting the operation because I had never been in a situation like this before. After they gave me the IV all I remember was the doctor telling me to count down from 10 but I think I only made it to 7 before I passed out.

When I woke up I felt dazed and confused and my nose was really sore. It wasn't as bad as I expected though and I was able to go home shortly after. I rested for a day or so and I wasn't happy about wearing a bandage on my face but I only had to for a week. When I look back on it, the whole thing wasn't that scary and I never even cried. It was the first (and hopefully last) time I broke a bone.