can you please read my story?
it may not be medically accurate but....
How Lola Died
My fifteenth birthday was the worst day of my life. I was diagnosed with Acute Myelogenous Leukemia which is a vile disease that affects the bone marrow and blood count. This is a leukemic disease that most commonly affects adults in their sixties. According to The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, there are approximately 245,225 people living with leukemia in the United States and I was one of them. My name is Lola, I am fifteen years old and this is my story.
My mom had thrown me the biggest party. There was cake, a DJ, you name it, and it was there. I couldn't ask for anything more. When everyone had come it was time to cut the cake. My chest was feeling kind of tight, like something was pressing against it almost as if I was wearing a very tight shirt. It was hurting but I didn't say anything to my mom because I thought the pain would subside later. It didn't, if anything, it got worse and it the pain kept getting worse until I couldn't take any more. I didn't want to worry anyone so I slipped out of the house when no one was looking thinking I just needed some fresh air. The next thing I knew I was in cold sweats, laying on the floor.
It felt like everything was spinning in circles. I was seeing doubles, triples, and quadruples. I couldn't focus. It felt like being on a ship swaying uncontrollably back and forth, side to side. I couldn't scream or call for help. I stayed on the ground hoping for someone to pass by but no one did. It felt like twenty minutes had passed. I felt better enough so I slowly got up. The world was still spinning but I was scared and I needed to find my parents. I couldn't walk very much at all. It was like I was a little kid trapped in a hundred year old body. It hurt to move. It hurt to breathe and I couldn't do anything. I had reached the doorway and when I was trying to open the door, my hands just couldn't get a hold of the knob. I felt a push behind the door and I couldn't move fast enough to get out of the way.
Before I knew it I was on the floor….again. My mother's face red with laughter drained all of its color as soon as she saw me. I must have looked sick as a dog because she let out a terrified gasp and dropped to her knees moving my hair out of my face to see what happened. I couldn't tell her. I couldn't see her no matter how close she got. Pandemonium broke out as my mom started screaming out for my dad, telling me it was going to be ok. My dad came out from the house and saw me and my mother. He lifted me in his arms and me out in the car.
My mom sat in the back of the car with me as my dad sped to the hospital. She held my hand but her gesture was futile in contrast to all the excruciatingly profound pain. She told me to keep breathing but breathing would only instigate more pain.
Everything about the hospital was placid. The walls were an explicit shade of blueish-green. My dad took me out of the car and ran to the doors of the hospital with me in his arms. Everyone stare at me like a ravenous snake looking at its prey. I realized that I hadn't started crying until then. A nurse rolled out a bed and almost immediately I lost consciousness.
I dreamed of beautiful waters cascading down mountains forming a pond at the end. Everyone I loved was there: my mom, dad aunts and uncles, my friends and my brothers and sisters. It was then that I realized that I could die and never wake up from this dream. There was so much I still had to do. There was so much I had to live for. I wanted a family, my own kids. I wanted to tell my parents how much I love them. I couldn't just die. If I woke up from this sweet trance it is imperative that I tell everyone I love how I feel about them.
As I was waking up I heard someone sobbing. I let out a moan and my mom jumped out of her seat. Her eyes were red and puffy and her face was stricken with tears. It hurt to see her like that. My mom never cried in front of anyone, not once. The only time I saw her cry was when grandma passed away.
She told me I was asleep for five hours. The doctors said that I had a blood clot in my chest and that they took it out. Finally she told me something I was unprepared to hear. I had cancer. No one else was in the room with her when she told me. The doctors precluded more than one person being in the room.
That night I couldn't sleep. I spent the night staring at the wall. I felt numb to everything. I just wanted it to end. I wished that this was all just a terrible nightmare but I knew this was all real and I had to be strong.
The next morning my mom left for work right from the hospital. When my dad came he looked afflicted. His face was sullen even though there was nothing to be angry about. He sat down on the chair beside my bed an looked at me fighting back tears. I looked into his eyes and wept. He told me not to fret. Despite my dad being sad, his calmness was palpable. I also tried to remain calm and above all, optimistic just like him
I spent the next few days in the hospital. i didn't have enough strength in me to move or do anything I wanted. If I wanted to hold a glass I couldn't or else I would drop it and it would break into shards. All I could do was watch local television channels on a tiny screen in my room. Whenever my pain became unbearable I would ask
and it would almost immediately terminate the pain. Often when I was bored I would reverie about being out of the hospital and hanging out with my friends singing out in garish voices and not caring who looked at us.
Whenever someone came to see me they looked disheveled. There was just something about them, or it could have even been me. My younger sister only came to see me once. She was so chaste, so demure, so innocent. She didn't know anything about the world and its horrors. She should have never seen me like that because I scarred her for life. She looked up to me and she saw mw so weak, so defenseless. But that didn't seem to bother her because she plopped down into the chair indolently and started to talk to me like nothing was wrong. That was the last time I ever saw her or anyone else for the matter because that was the day I died.
During my stay at the hospital I leaned to never depreciate what you have. Always be grateful for your life because you can lose it all in the blink of an eye.
THIS IS A STORY! I it has nothing to do with me........lol
do you guys like it? if not why? if yes why?
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- king
That is some real $ h!% sorry i am crying in pain for you
- EmmaK14
WOW...I like adventure stories like teen fantasy stuff but that was really good. It made me cry. It would probaby be like 4 pages and it just is so real and makes you think. Its wonderful other than some spelling errors. But really really good job
- Rachy
Omg that is so sad. I wanted to cry. The story is really good too. You had a few typos but nothing major. I love it, although it's kind of creepy that it's in first person of someone who
s dead. It has a nice message to it though. Good job with it.
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