One Week of Vacation, Two weeks of Deathly Illness, And Four Months of Reincarnation
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There was a young man who looks scared. His arm was proper up on the grey chair with the white rubber band. He looked nervous and might not know what going on. As he waiting for the nurse, he was look at all of the tube that hold blood. She was preparing for his valuable blood by the white basket on the wooden table. There were only a few thing that can come to mind; how he got where he is at, what is going on, is he dying, and can he might just be sick.
The week of Christmas I went to Colorado to be able just to spend time with my parents and sisters without having issue with the rest of the family. We left on the twenty-second from Lafayette airport. We flight thought Lafayette, and Dallas Airport, to get Denver, Colorado. We took a shuttle to the car rental place. After we drove to our hotel and save all of our luggage. We relaxes in our rooms and took few hour nap. Since, we never did much traveling and that much movement before. Right after our nap we explorer our hotel and then we took the car around town to site see. I saw many beautiful site that were frozen and cover with soft white porcelain snowflakes. To see a frozen lake stream and water falls were amazing and to be able to see it was breathe taking. The view of the gigantic mountain and able to see the white caps was incredible.
During the time I went to Colorado, I went skiing at the Key Stone Park, then tubing down the mounting too. One of the days we went snowmobiled up to Georgia Pass. After we went up the mounting we stood on the continental divide. It was 11,585 feet high, that divides the Atlantic Ocean and Pacific Ocean. Then we left from snowmobiling and went back to the hotel. The next morning was Christmas and was snow in so we stand in and met every...
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...iologist to make sure my heart was okay. When I went see my cardiologist they saw a mess up value in my heart with an irregular heartbeat but I was find. Later on that week they called back saying I did not have that issue with my value but have an irregular beat. Dr. Papp said I would be fine and I need to move more to build my stamina up again.
From the beginning of my sickness I did school work and fighting this bacterial infection at my house. I force myself to do everything. I have to even fight to do school at my house with the school board. Nothing was easy I went thought so much pain and suffering. But at the end the last week of my recovery I ran three miles to make myself. I never felt better. The first gift from life is life itself, so don’t take life for granted, because you do not know when it’s your time to go. Do not waste a second, minute or hour.
In this essay, the author
- Describes a young man who looked nervous and might not know what was going on. he was waiting for the nurse to prepare for his valuable blood by the white basket.
- Describes how they went to colorado to spend time with their parents and sisters without having issues with the rest of the family. they took a shuttle to the car rental place and relaxed in their rooms.
- Narrates how they went skiing in colorado, tubing down the mounting, and dinning with people from poland, iceland and egypt. the next day, they packed up early and took photos for their senior portraits.
- Describes how they felt horrible on their second day of high school. they worked faster to complete all of their work ahead of time to be able to leave earlier.
- Describes how they went to dr. papp's office for a few months to see what they were doing. they had one of the 36 known species of borrelia.
- Explains that the first gift from life is life itself, so don't take life for granted, because you do not know when it's your time to go.
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