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TITLE: A Childhood Adventure | Previous Challenge Entry
By Pam Cantrell
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You better stop before on of you get hurt! Living on a farm Karen and her
brother Terry heard these words often. But on this particular day Karen
should have listened.
Karen was seven years old with waist length strawberry hair and blue eyes.
Her brother Terry was eight years old with short curly red hair and blue eyes.
Karen and Terry were very close, what one did the other one would join in.
One bright sunny afternoon in July, Karen and her family had gone to see her
grandparents. Papaw kept an old red bicycle at the barn so that when the
grand kids came they could take turns riding it. Well on this day Terry was
riding the bicycle and Karen was waiting patiently for her turn. Terry had this
bright idea, "Hey Karen why don't you sit on the seat and I'll stand up and
pedal then you jump off the back pretending to be superman." Karen agreed.
After she did this a couple of times she told Terry it was his turn, so they
switched places. Just as Terry jumped off momma stuck her head out the
door and caught him. "You better stop before one of you get hurt!" she yelled.
Karen and Terry stopped for a little while then decided to try it again. It was
a lot of fun; besides that no one would get hurt. Terry jumped off and then
Karen. Karen hear a loud pop as she hit the ground. "Terry what is this sticking
out of my arm" she asked. Terry began to scream. Momma came running out
of the house with daddy hot on her heals to see what was the matter. Daddy
said my arm was broken and we had to go to the hospital. The look on mamma's
face said "I told you so." Karen hated that look.
As they arrived at the hospital momma took Karen into the emergency room
while daddy parked the car. Daddy had left Terry with mawmaw and papaw.
The hospital had a yucky smell. The barn smelt better that it did. Anyway the
nice nurse immediately took Karen to see the doctor. The doctor said her arm
was broken in two places, one by the elbow and the other at the wrist. This one
was a nasty break because the bone was sticking out of the skin. Karen was
terrified. The doctor said he would have to operate quickly. The nurse put a
mask on Karen's face and before she knew it she was asleep. When she woke up
no one was around and Karen had a panic attack and began to yell. A nurse
came in and took her to her parents. After the operation the doctor put a cast
on her arm. Karen had to wear the cast for eight weeks.
The cast was not fun at all. Because it was summer, the case was hot,
sweaty and it itched. Karen could not get the cast wet or it would come off.
Finally, finally! the day came to get the cast off. Karen was put in a room
where a giant saw was. She was so frightened. She began to cry saying "They
are going to cut my arm off!". Momma reassured her that they were not gonna
cut her arm off. The nurse turned the loud machine on. The saw did not touch
her arm at all. When the machine was turned off the nurse touched the cast
and it fell off. "I'm free!" Karen yelled. "I will never, ever, as long as I live
jump off of a bicycle again" Karen promised her momma. Now Terry and Karen
listen when momma says "You better stop before one of you get hurt!"
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