Personal Narrative: My Collapse

Realizing my life had become unmanageable took place some time before coming to CityTeam. I was living day-to-day in my addiction, not caring about anything or anyone. Stealing was a daily task for me at this time; honest work was not an option. I was unable to keep a job because, no matter what, the drugs came first. Stealing, cheating and lying became all I knew of how to survive.

It was a sweltering July day and suddenly I had an incredible pain in my stomach. It felt as if the acidic gases in my stomach were churning up and down, burning the inside of my stomach. My mom frantically dialed 911 and I swiftly arrived at the hospital in an ambulance. Not long after I arrived, the doctor notified me I was having an allergic reaction.

Uma Thurman is a 45 year old major motion picture actress. When Uma made an appearance at the premiere party for the TV series, 'The Slap', on February 9, 2015, her appearance looked drastically different. People were shocked by her physical "transformation" because she didn't look like herself. People were speculating that she had extensive plastic surgery, because what else could make her look so different. Uma denies having any plastic surgery. Plastic surgeons are split in their opinions of whether Uma had plastic surgery or not. Some surgeons say that it was just a matter of different makeup and hair style that contributed to her different look. Other surgeons claim she had extensive plastic surgery. Here is the debate with Uma Thurman

The field of immunology encompasses everything from autoimmunity and immune deficiencies to infectious diseases and allergic reactions. I started seeing an allergist myself this past October. I'd begun breaking out into hives. My mother had assumed it was stress since it first occurred on the eve of my sweet sixteen party. But

An archetypal character is a personality that often appears in a genre across films, in The Usual Suspects there are many archetypal characters. McManus is the trigger happy hothead of the quintet, hiding nothing from any authority figure, whether it be the cops or the underling of the most powerful hidden man in the world. His complete disregard of possible consequences when he pulls a gun on Redfoot makes him a sure candidate for the role of the Rebel. Keaton was the reluctant leader of the group the only one who knew what Verbal was capable of. Verbal often turned to him for help such as defending his idea for the taxi heist, surprisingly Keaton actually respected Verbal the most, answering his questions of Keyser Soze and choosing him to

your “Allergy List.” State what the reaction was and what medication or hospital emergency was

In the movies, the police always have to read your Miranda rights before they arrest you or ask questions. Unlike the movies, the police are not required to read you your Miranda rights during a DUI investigation. They can ask you questions prior to your arrest without reading you your rights. In addition, you can be waiting in custody without being made aware of your rights.

Having grown up in a time and within a society where the terms fail and lose are rarely spoken to children in any aspect of their lives, I generally considered myself a success in everything I did. I received medals, ribbons, certificates, awards, and trophies for academics, sports, and for just being a kid. So in my mind, for the majority of my life, I was unaware that I had failed or lost at anything. And having a father that is a U.S. Marine, failing and losing were not things that I wanted to tell him that I had done. Now that I am tasked to determine how I have grown from my failures, I realize that I have failed, that failure is not the end, and that I have excelled in several areas of my life due to what I have learned from those failures.

The hives started in January of 2015. Small, mosquito bite-sized welts appeared in various locations around my body. Over the span of three months, the severity and frequency of these "bug-bite attacks" intensified. After crossing off the possibility of a bug infestation, my dad, who is a doctor, informed me that I was breaking out in hives probably due to an allergy. Hives are generally characterized as extremely itchy welts; they vary significantly in size. My dad and I spent countless nights researching different allergy possibilities before finally deciding to visit an allergist. All the while, the hives continued to intensify, almost exponentially.

Since I took medication that made me drowsy, I slept until about 9pm that night. Once I woke up I discovered that I had hives all over my body and a extreme head

Finally, one doctor took time to really listen to Anna and figure out what was actually going on. He realized that she had an extremely severe case of mast cell disease. This disease makes her body have a life-threatening allergic reaction when she was exposed to the allergen. In her case, she had more than 100 allergies to different environmental factors like scents and foods. Worse still, there was no known cure. With the disease worsening, Anna needed constant care. Her three siblings were the only people who did not trigger an allergic reaction, so they became her caretakers

There’s something about writing your raw emotions on a piece of paper that allows your spirit to run free and hold no boundaries of what you can think of and it's only the moments in life that can fuel the locked potential inside you. The epiphany of my life was actually closer to this present time than in the past, about last year my family moved from New haven to Branford. In New haven I was in a program which allowed me to go to Wallingford as a district school and I spent 6 years in this program making friends and going to school all I knew from my elementary to highschool period from then was Wallingford. While schooling in Wallingford district living in New haven I had developed a skill of poetry in the midst of 8th grade. I found that

It began with an itch, painful itching that spread across my skin in red lumps. The first visit to the ER was when I was 5; The doctors said it was an allergic reaction. Within the next few years the minor reactions occurred more often, creeping onto my skin in the morning and lingering even after Benadryl. Eventually, I could not go a day without seeing hives. From that moment on I began a series of medications and testing in effort to determine my condition. It was around this time that I fell behind in my core classes, which to this day I believe is the root cause of my later difficulties in math and science. By middle school testing ended and I remained on two medications. In 10th grade, however, the hives returned, and my doctor wanted

I was laid off and unable to secure employment for six years. I filed chapter 13 bankruptcy during that time. Therefore, my student loans had to be placed in deferment for 7 years of the bankruptcy. When I was discharged from my bankruptcy, I received emails from three student loan financial institutions that I never obtain a loan from requesting payments for student loans. I sent letters to each financial institution requesting an audit of my account. Two of the financial institutions provided the information I requested. However, I never received the information from the third institution, Navient.

From the first time it never got easier. There were still times when my dad would walk in on me crying. Everyone has a heart break in their life. Mine just so happened to be the one I thought would never leave, and the one I had planned my future with. July 16th, 2016 was the first day Brandon came to hangout with me, and the day i knew would change everything for me. Honestly, there was no other excitement in the world that could top the way my heart raced that day. He pulled up to the driveway in a black dodge megacab. Not knowing what how the night would play out I quietly jumped in the truck and we started a very basic conversation and surprisingly we both couldn't stop smiling. We headed to champaign to go to the car demolition since his family was running in it. That night after the demo’s we went to his house and he had talked me into sitting down right beside him so he could ask me to be his girlfriend, and of course i said yes. Looking back now I should’ve said no.