Story of my Life 18 Jun. 2014 | Page 4

Short Story Memior

Have you ever had something done to you but you don’t remember much and it some how impacted you strongly? Well I had just about that happen to me when I was five years old. In the winter of 2000 I was sent to Iowa City Hospital after the hospital in West Union was doing a check up on my heart. Later to find out I had to have open-heart surgery that winter. I had surgery on my heart because I had a whole in my heart and one of my tubes or valves was not attached to my heart. I was young but I can only remember bites and pieces of the surgery and the time I was there for recovery.

When I was at Iowa City Hospital my stay was very restricted because when you have a five-year-old boy they have so much energy that they just want to run and have fun. Do to my surgery it felt like I had to either stay in the hospital room or if I wanted to walk around I had to drag this huge cart the had all these cords and tubes hooked up to me. After a few weeks of that I was able to take off the cords and tubes and then I was able to play with out having to drag that cart around.