For this project we wrote about our self then your partner performed yours and you performed theirs. The following piece is my monologue.
Hi my name is Demi Reeves. I am twelve years old. I have two sisters and a brother. My older sister, Savanna, is fourteen. My little brother and sister, Chloe and Spencer, are nine years old. A year ago, I hurt my leg playing soccer. At first we thought that it was just a bruised bone, so I kept playing soccer. I was in so much pain. Later on that week my leg swelled after practice, so big it drooped over my socks, it was nasty. My mom got worried, so she took me to a sports doctor. He too thought it was just a bad bone bruise, but just to make sure he did a few x-rays. He ended up finding a tiny crack in my shin. The doctor wanted to make sure nothing else was wrong so he asked me to go get an MRI. I was so scared something else was going to be wrong. It felt like the pain was increasing every day. It was time for the MRI. As I laid in the giant tube, my mind started to race and my heart was beating a million miles a minute. Finally it was over and I got my results. To me it was a bunch of mumbo jumbo, but to the doctors it was bad news. In the results they found mass in my shin. What they explained to me is a four inch mass of shattered bone. When I heard this I began to cry. My bone was like hot cracked dessert land. The doctor put me in a cast up to my knee that day to protect it from getting hit again. I was also put on crutches and not allowed to walk on it. The next day I was taken to a doctor at the hospital. There they took off the small cast and gave me a larger one that went up to my upper thigh. The next accessory was a wheelchair. Every week we had to cut the old cast off to do tests then put a new cast on. They later found out that I had RSD, a chronic pain disorder in my shin. When you have RSD you feel as though you have a blow torch on twenty four/ seven. I have changed so much since the day I got kicked. I have gotten stronger and more confident because I am different than others. I learned that I have to work twice as hard as every one else for sports. I still am not able to do sports, but I try as hard as I can to get back to doing them. In the future I want my leg to get better. Something standing between reality and my dreams is the difficulty to have the RSD die down, but it flare up again. I will try to overcome this pain by working hard to go into remission.
Hi my name is Demi Reeves. I am twelve years old. I have two sisters and a brother. My older sister, Savanna, is fourteen. My little brother and sister, Chloe and Spencer, are nine years old. A year ago, I hurt my leg playing soccer. At first we thought that it was just a bruised bone, so I kept playing soccer. I was in so much pain. Later on that week my leg swelled after practice, so big it drooped over my socks, it was nasty. My mom got worried, so she took me to a sports doctor. He too thought it was just a bad bone bruise, but just to make sure he did a few x-rays. He ended up finding a tiny crack in my shin. The doctor wanted to make sure nothing else was wrong so he asked me to go get an MRI. I was so scared something else was going to be wrong. It felt like the pain was increasing every day. It was time for the MRI. As I laid in the giant tube, my mind started to race and my heart was beating a million miles a minute. Finally it was over and I got my results. To me it was a bunch of mumbo jumbo, but to the doctors it was bad news. In the results they found mass in my shin. What they explained to me is a four inch mass of shattered bone. When I heard this I began to cry. My bone was like hot cracked dessert land. The doctor put me in a cast up to my knee that day to protect it from getting hit again. I was also put on crutches and not allowed to walk on it. The next day I was taken to a doctor at the hospital. There they took off the small cast and gave me a larger one that went up to my upper thigh. The next accessory was a wheelchair. Every week we had to cut the old cast off to do tests then put a new cast on. They later found out that I had RSD, a chronic pain disorder in my shin. When you have RSD you feel as though you have a blow torch on twenty four/ seven. I have changed so much since the day I got kicked. I have gotten stronger and more confident because I am different than others. I learned that I have to work twice as hard as every one else for sports. I still am not able to do sports, but I try as hard as I can to get back to doing them. In the future I want my leg to get better. Something standing between reality and my dreams is the difficulty to have the RSD die down, but it flare up again. I will try to overcome this pain by working hard to go into remission.