Personal Narrative: My Grandpa's Cabin
Up at my grandparents cabin in Mio, Michigan, it is usually pretty calm and relaxing… Unless me and my brother are riding the ATVs of course. We ride up and down the dirt driveway, through the trails leading to the neighbors houses, and around our small private pond. I really enjoy going fast on “my” ATV (it is really my grandpa's, but he doesn't use it and my brother has his own). One day while I was up at my cabin around 2012, I was taking a break from riding, my brother asked me if I wanted to ride as a passenger.
Thinking nothing of it, I said yes and jumped on. We had only gone around the pond twice when my brother decided to go up… THE HILL! It's really not that menacing, but it just is very steep (about a 60° incline). My brother drove up the hill really fast, I could feel myself almost slipping off the back. As we reached the top, we got about 5” of air, and that's on a 700 lb machine! My brother tried to turn the machine in midair but because we were not on the ground, only the wheels turned. As we touched down, the forward momentum and the wheels being turned caused the ATV to roll over. The weight of the ATV pressed my head onto the ground, I am guessing on something hard, and my head split open. At the time me and my …show more content…
When we got to the hospital, I was ushered into the ER! The room they put me in was a lot like a dentist's office, especially the chair. I nearly fell asleep twice while fidgeting in the room due to blood loss and it being 10:00 pm. Once my nurse came in, seeming very genial, she told me “we have to use staples and not stitches because the flesh on your head is very thin” (and some other, convoluted reasons) I asked if she had even put the numbing in yet when she was preparing the stapler and she said it had been put in 5 minutes ago, which I was very appreciative of. I winced as she put the staples in my
Thinking nothing of it, I said yes and jumped on. We had only gone around the pond twice when my brother decided to go up… THE HILL! It's really not that menacing, but it just is very steep (about a 60° incline). My brother drove up the hill really fast, I could feel myself almost slipping off the back. As we reached the top, we got about 5” of air, and that's on a 700 lb machine! My brother tried to turn the machine in midair but because we were not on the ground, only the wheels turned. As we touched down, the forward momentum and the wheels being turned caused the ATV to roll over. The weight of the ATV pressed my head onto the ground, I am guessing on something hard, and my head split open. At the time me and my …show more content…
When we got to the hospital, I was ushered into the ER! The room they put me in was a lot like a dentist's office, especially the chair. I nearly fell asleep twice while fidgeting in the room due to blood loss and it being 10:00 pm. Once my nurse came in, seeming very genial, she told me “we have to use staples and not stitches because the flesh on your head is very thin” (and some other, convoluted reasons) I asked if she had even put the numbing in yet when she was preparing the stapler and she said it had been put in 5 minutes ago, which I was very appreciative of. I winced as she put the staples in my