My Traumatic Event

My Traumatic Event
It was the first week Into my sophomore year; I thought I was going to have such a fun and careless time, I had just got out of a very bad relationship, and for the first time I felt free and In control of my own life. Until the day that my traumatic event changed my look on life and made me open my eyes to reality. I had walked over to my friend Macaulay’s house the morning before school. As I walk in the door McKay says “Hey girl I’ve got some good stuff for you. ” Me: “Sure, what is it? ” “I’ve got Asana that is. OMG,” she said “Oh yea sure, and if they’re only. MGM I’ll take two of them. Later that morning I am sitting in my first-period class which was spoken. I am starting to feel extremely tired and I fall asleep for almost the whole period which was 90 minutes at the time. It was near the end of class when there were about only 20 minutes left, I Instantly woke up and felt Like I was going to get sick so I quickly asked “May I go to the restroom? ” My teacher must have known something was wrong because she sent her assistant with me. Once I was In the restroom, I pulled out my phone and tried to dial my great-grandma so that she could come to pick me up, but the embers started to look blurry.
The lady who was with me asked “Are you k, are you k? Do I need to go get help? ” The story from there on is kind of fog. I do remember being asked if I wanted to go to the nurses’ office. Once I was in the nurse’s office I was asked what was going on. “l took two Asana that was. OMG. ” “I’m sorry Ashley but I couldn’t understand that, what did you say? ” I was making sense in my mind but to other people, I was mumbling and stumbling. The nurse had me sit down and try to explain things to her, while I waited on the ambulance to get there. “Ashley, what did you take? “l took… I would doze off and the nurse would shake me and yell… “Ashley, stay with me and explain to me what happened,” she said “l took two Asana… ” And I would doze off again and the same thing would happen. As I’m dozing off I see black walls that have surrounded me, and I feel as if I have been asleep for a while when really it had only been a couple of seconds. The whole time the nurse tried to get what happened out of me. As I’m waiting for the ambulance, I felt as if I had been waiting for hours. I don’t know how long I had really been waiting, but it sure did feel like forever. Finally, the ambulance had arrived.

I was put on the stretcher, strapped on, and wheeled out. As I’m being wheeled out the paramedic is trying to talk to me to keep me awake, it works until we get to the front door of the school (which is not very far from the nurse’s office). I do remember that as I’m being taken out that there are all these students gathered around trying to see what Is going on. Looking back I think how embarrassing. The next part that I remember I woke up to being hooked up to monitors, EKE pads all over, an IV In my arm, and I had to have a tube shoved down my nose. I was forced to drink something until I woke up Just puking nonstop. The worst part was I had nothing in my stomach to puke up beside that black, thick liquid I had drunk earlier. What I was throwing up was pretty much tar-like. After that phase passed I fell asleep again. The next time I woke up my dad was sitting across the way in front of me. He was sitting there with his hands on his head, as his head was down. I didn’t even have to see the look on his face to tell that he was worried. Once he realized that I was awake I saw a look of relief and disappointment. The rest of what happened in the hospital is a blur, so to mom to a conclusion I had overdosed.
What I had taken was not really sure. I had a blood test done in the hospital, but they are not really sure what exactly I had taken. From the description that I had given and my symptoms, they said it could have been morphine, but that is not one hundred percent sure due to it wasn’t found in my blood test. I paved some heavy consequences for my actions that day, even though the drugs were not taken on the school ground, my episode happened on the school ground. I was suspended for seven days, and I had to give the name of the person who I had received the pills from. Of course, the person who I received them from was not happy, so I took harassment from her and her family for quite a while. My dad was pretty upset with the choice that I had made, and he felt that I should be punished/embarrassed. So after I was released from the hospital I went home, I ate something, and I started to change into some pajamas when my dad said “Oh no, we’ve got softball practice tonight and you’re going! ” I looked at him like he was crazy. I could barely function with all the “morphine” in my system. When I get to practice of course my dad has to tell my whole story to everyone.
My coach takes me aside and wants to have a heart to heart conversation. I don’t remember everything that he said, but I do remember a few things. “Ashley, high school is a very important matter and it is very easy to get mixed in with the wrong crowd. If you want to make something out of yourself you have to graduate high school, and you have to graduate with good grades and a good GAP, so don’t let the wrong crowd ruin your future because you won’t impress a couple of friends you’ll only have for maybe a year or two. ” I thought about what my coach said and I started to think, “What do I want to do with my future? I want to be a Nurse Practitioner. After that I started to look into colleges, I had to take into consideration a lot of things. Like the things, a college looks for in a student. Good consistent grades, a high GAP, attendance, whether or not you were a good student. At that point, I was not on the right path to accomplish my future goal, and from that point on I changed my life in school. I got serious, I started going to class, I was there on time, I studied for the test, and I always did my homework and always turned it in on time. All of my hard work finally paved because I did graduate in May of 2013.
I may not have graduated with the highest honors, perfect attendance, or valedictorian, but I came close to a 4. 0 GAP, and I graduated early. After high school, I went on to college to study medical assisting. I started out in college the right way, I did not fool around at all. When all said in done I graduated in November 2013, this time I did make a difference. I graduated with perfect attendance, highest honors, and valedictorian. My hard work paved off, I am now a medical assistant at the Indianapolis VA Hospital, and I plan on moving up in the medical field and making a difference.