Personal Narrative: Thump
For every 10,000 children there are just 10.2 discharges with diagnose of a fracture, so why me? Rain softly feel on my helmet ‘Tip tap tip tap’. There I was getting a quietly getting lead off of first base, giving the lefty on the mound a dead stare and trying to read his body language.
I could hear the small crunch of cleats behind me swiftly darting across the dirt. Everything went into slow motion like all life changing things do. I rotated my body and dove at the back corner of the bag. I slowly glided across the dirt and the corner of my eye caught the pitcher releasing the ball. I almost hit the bag when ‘Thump’ I felt something smash my right wrist. I could literally fell my arm swelling already. I slowly managed to get up shaking
I could hear the small crunch of cleats behind me swiftly darting across the dirt. Everything went into slow motion like all life changing things do. I rotated my body and dove at the back corner of the bag. I slowly glided across the dirt and the corner of my eye caught the pitcher releasing the ball. I almost hit the bag when ‘Thump’ I felt something smash my right wrist. I could literally fell my arm swelling already. I slowly managed to get up shaking