In this blog post, I'm going to be revising my scene from blog post five. I'm hoping to add at least 200 more words and I'm going to be adding dialogue to help show more action in my scene.
Seen From My Life It was a cold early January day, my mom and I were heading to chop (Children's Hospital of Philadelphia) we arrived at the woods center, it's a big old four-story brick building connected to the main wings of chop. We drove into the basement found a parking spot and get a slip from the attendant. I'm starting to feel pretty nervous wondering what options I'm going to have. We take the elevator up to the 4th floor, sign-in and were told to take a seat in the waiting room. It's a bright room, paintings of elephants, zebras, and giraffes cover the walls. There's little kids all around some coughing and crying as their parents try to console them, another's running around without a care in the world. I heard my name be called and the young nurse escorts my mom and I to room 6. We wait for surgent Adzick to arrive. After waiting about 30 minutes surgeon Adzick arrives, he knocks twice on the door and then proceeds to enter. He's a tall man probably 6 foot 3 with short gray combed over hair. He walks up to me shakes my hand and introduce himself. “Hello Seth, my name is dr. Adzick and I'm the head surgeon here at CHOP for all pectus surgeries.” I can tell by the way he carries himself that he is a very confident man. He then proceeded to say, “So Seth, after spending some time looking over your x-rays, I've come to the conclusion that your severe pectus excavatum is causing your heart to shift to the left and it seems to be putting pressure on your lungs. The pressure it's putting on your lungs could be the cause of your asthma. Do to your severe condition I would highly recommend surgery as soon as possible.” I was expecting him to say this but even still hearing it out loud made it almost too real. He then said, “This is a big surgery, so I highly recommend you taking the time to weigh your options. If you decide to do the surgery, beware that you could be out of school and work for some time.” Adzick then said, “Another one of my patients was going to have the surgery in about three weeks so if you would like, I can get yours down then also or you can wait till school ends?” The idea of waiting months was overwhelming; I don't have the patience for that. I responded almost immediately saying, “I'll do the surgery in three weeks, that works way better for me." Little did I know that this surgery and the time that I picked would end up causing me my job and months of school work, I should have waited. I should have waited till the summer.
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Temadji
10/8/2018 05:58:34 pm
Hi Seth
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