Personal Narrative: Aurora

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Aurora is where I start to remember a lot of things from my childhood. Moving there in 2001 wasn’t easy because I know remembered I had to say goodbye to all my friends in Ottawa. I always wondered why my sisters would cry when we always moved they always lost their friends. Well now I was losing mine. But now we are here back in Colorado nothing I can do now. My mom and dad rented a house off of Chambers and Hampden. It was a nice neighborhood busier than the small town we just moved from. Mom immediately put us in school since it was January. It really sucks being the new kid in the middle of the school year. I went to Dartmouth elementary school. I think I was in 2nd or 3rd grade heck its confusing since we moved all the time. It turns out …show more content…

A few of my sisters went onto middle school while my younger sister Elaine and I finished elementary school. As I got older I became more of a loner kid like in middle school. I liked being inside playing video games. I considered myself the good kid compared to my sisters who were full of drama and craziness I think. My mom continued to work at big lots and my dad was still a land surveyor. I had the typical child hood as I grew through the years here in Aurora. That was until my mom started getting sick which really turned my world upside down. I was so worried about my mom. She lost her job and had to stay home. She was always sick and at home. There came a time where it was very difficult for her to take care of us. She would have multiple sinus surgeries trying to get better but they only seemed to make them worst. She started getting extreme migraines from nerve damage. It was hard to be around kids at that time for her. Sadly it would only get …show more content…

I missed a lot of school and was unable to attend school. It turned out to be a neurological tick. I was always coughing could hardly move without coughing, sore throat, just felt really horrible. It took multiple doctors to examine me and no one could figure it out. Finally an immunologist figured it out the issue. It took almost a whole year for me to get better. I was constantly at home but I also spent some time in the National Jewish hospital. This was hard for my mom she was distraught over this issue. Not only did she have her health issues but she was taking care of my health issues. On top of the health issues we had issues with the school accepting that I was unable to come to school. They would threaten us with the truancy officers but my condition couldn’t be helped at the time until the treatment was completed. The treatments sucked and having a year taken from me sucked more than anything. I just kept thinking like this is so stupid what teenager has this happen to them. All I did was thinking of what I would do when I was better. I kept stressing myself out as well not being able to get out of the house and do what I needed or to know I was a year behind in school because of this stupid coughing tick. I wasn’t sure what was going to happen, I just had to live day by day and hope that my life and health would bet

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