The doctors said that I was lucky to be alive and that somehow I had rattled things loose in my head so that the connections between my ears and my brain no longer...well, connected. They said there was nothing that they could do with the current technology. They said that because I was still fairly young, my body might find a way to heal itself. They said all of this in writing because I couldn’t hear a damn thing they were saying.
I started with hearing loss. I think it was the easiest for me to confront because I have always been so adamant about not wanting to give it up. I have an excerpt from my story below for your enjoyment. It was a freak accident that took away my hearing. Simple really, I was standing on the end of a seesaw on the playground at school one afternoon waiting for my mom to pick me up. My friends Stevie and Jeff were holding down the opposite end so that I could “surf” 10 feet in the air. I’m still not sure what possessed the school to purchase and install such big seesaws but that’s not the point. The point is that a bee landed on Jeff’s nose and he jumped off like someone had stuck him with a cattle prod. Stevie’s only about half my weight so he couldn’t hold the end of the seesaw down all by himself and I crashed down to the ground.
The doctors said that I was lucky to be alive and that somehow I had rattled things loose in my head so that the connections between my ears and my brain no longer...well, connected. They said there was nothing that they could do with the current technology. They said that because I was still fairly young, my body might find a way to heal itself. They said all of this in writing because I couldn’t hear a damn thing they were saying.
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Heather Wernle'
7/10/2012 01:30:05 pm
I like how the character expresses himself while telling his story - very much down to earth. I like his personality... Good for you Jonathan
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