Personal Narrative: An Incident At Spring Break

I was smiling the whole time as the skin around my neck was being ripped off. Well I wasn’t actually smiling and as brutal as I made it sound, it wasn’t as horrific an event now that I look back on it. The incident occurred while I was on Spring Break during my freshman year in high school. My family and I were vacationing in Gatlinburg, Tennessee;which if I might add we’ve been there about eight times since I was seven years old. I remember clearly that day down to the exact temperature.The sun was out that day, but it was still a chilly breeze since it was late March. I was wearing a gray and white polka dot scarf that my older sister had bought for me. She and I saw the go-karts and decided to ride them. The adrenaline of going around the sharp turns on the track had clouded my mind and before I knew it my scarf was gone with the wind. “ KEARA WHAT IS THAT ON YOUR NECK?!”, exclaimed my mom once I had got off the ride. …show more content…
My neck looked like a skinless chicken breast. It took less than a second for me to go into a full blown panic attack while my parents scrambled to get me to the nearest Walgreens. Once we returned home, I went to the doctor’s office. Initially they asked my dad to step out of the room and asked me questions about how it actually happened; implying that my parents had abused me. I told her the full story and she simply replied that I could have been decapitated. Now me being fourteen at the time I couldn’t comprehend the severity of what she saying. Surprisingly enough, I just smiled and continued to make jokes about my scar. After missing three weeks of school my peers were astonished by how I was so comfortable about talking about the giant scab, pus- oozing, scar around my neck. I do admit that it was hard to sleep since I couldn’t bend my neck and to make it more embarrassing my dad had insisted that I wear a neck