My Scariest Moment

My ScarIest Memory

by DeAndre Jones

I looked at my mom and saw the worry In her eyes and I knew somethIng was wrong. I don’t know If I ate some expired meat and drank some expired mIlk or somethIng. I just couldn’t stop throwing up my dad heard me and came In my room to check on me to make sure I was alright. I stopped for a little while and my dad told me to try to go to sleep but I couldn’t my stomach hurt to much. Then after like 15 minutes I started throwing up again My brother Robert and his wife Nicole came over for the holidays from a seven hour drive from Ohio. They came In to check on me too. “What’s wrong with him”, asked Robert.

“ He’s just having a stomach ache”, replied my dad. The smell of the vomit made me nauseous.  After 5 minutes of losing my lunch I realized that nothing was coming out but I was still hacking. Then after a while I saw this red stuff coming out of my mouth I was worried for a second but then I realized I must have drank too much kool-aid. I realized that I dIdn’t have any Kool-aid so I got scared again. “ dad what is that”, I asked! I saw him crying while he said.

“It’s blood son” he replied. “Well that’s not normal” my brother said. “ Oh really I thought It was natural for blood to come out of your mouth” I said sarcastically. My dad got so worried he took me to the hospital because this is the second time I’ve been to the hospital not counting when I was born. As soon as we got to the hospital My brother was so tired he fell asleep In the waiting room. When the doctor was ready to see me I went In his room and he told me to put the gown on.

So I took off my clothes and put It on my dad was praying for me because that’s what he does when I’m not feeling so good. Then the doctor told me I was fIne, don’t get me wrong that was great and all but what was the gown for. “What was the gown for” I asked! “ It’s just a procedure I have to tell everyone to wear It” I wasn’t to ecstatic about that but I was ecstatIc I was fine so my dad took me home and I finally went to sleep. I  knew I would tough It out In the end. What I learned from that experience is