I will never forget the day I broke my arm! I remember it all like it was yesterday

In the second grade my friend, Lilly invited me to her birthday party at Win Kids. I was so excited to go because I had never been there before and we were going to the gym with the bars and beams to do some gymnastics.

Since we got there so early we had to go wait in there mini movie theater. Since I was so young I thought it was the coolest thing ever! When Lilly showed up my mom and I went with them to our table and helped set everything up. Eventually all the other guests arrived. So now the party was starting!

We all ran into the gym and just went berserk! We were swinging on the ropes, hanging on the bars and climbing all over the beams. Then one of the Win Kid employees let us go in the pit filled with huge foam blocks. He even through five donut hole shaped mats in the pit and stacked them on top of each other. He warned us to jump in with our arms straight up, but I forgot! I jumped in and bent my left arm just enough for my bone to split in half. Not across but vertically, my arm had split all the way through. At first I didn’t know what to do. It felt like time was frozen and everything around seemed to stop. Until the pain hit me like a bullet. Tears were streaming down my face, I couldn’t breathe, I couldn’t feel my arm.

The instructor helped me out of the pit and to my mom which could already tell my arm was broken. We rushed to the car and I remember yelling at her every five seconds “go faster!’ or “it hurts!” It was about a ten minute drive to the Lewisville Medical Center. By the time we checked in the pain was slowly going away.

After hours of doctors and nurses coming in and out of my room with needles, medicines and news, good and bad, it was time for them to put me to sleep. They were going to pop my arm into place. Thank goodness they put me to sleep. I remember being so scared the doctor just told me to dream about going to Disney world. Then I started counting down from one-hundred…

“Mom, is that you?” I had mumbled waking up to seeing three of the exact same paintings on the wall. It felt like everything was spinning! I was seeing doubles of everything! The nurse came in with a wheel chair. “I’m about to throw up” I said mumbling. The nurse just kept wheeling me to my mom’s car though. When we got to the car I felt even more nauseous, I ended up vomiting everywhere!

We ended up getting home at 2:00am. It felt like days since I had broken my arm at Win Kids. I was planning on never going back there.