On august 17,2005 I was at a soccer camp with two of my friends up in Newhampshire. We had to get up early for soccernastics and then for the rest of the day we would live,breathe,and be soccer. We were having a blast! I live for soccer! But in the last session of the day I was running up the left side of one of the soccer fields, and I fell and a girl fell right on my head. I was nocked out for a couple of seconds but I got up and I didn't know where I was or who was around my. My two friends started to notice that I was acting differently and noticed that I couldn't stand without swaying. I fell acouple of times but I would get up but once i fell and just didn't get up. I was then in a small buggy like car zooming around the field with the trainer and my couch beside me. They then took me to a woman who put me in her car who then took me to a small community hospital. There I was treated like a labrat. The doctors there were doing all these tests to me but I was in such a daze i couldn't really pay any attention to them. After about four or five hours they put me in an ambulance and drove me to Dartmouth Hitchcock trauma center. I was there alone for about an hour before my dad finally made it to the hospital. I slept most of the time I was there, but what else are you supposed to do at a hospital? When I woke up I was starving. I wasn't aloud to eat but finally I made a bargin with them and they let me eat a little. After I ate I was taken to do more tests and when I got back a nurse was waiting to give me a shower. I refused but no matter what I said she started taking off my cloths. First my cliets,then sock,shinguars,shirt,shorts,and well you know what comes after those. After that long and very revealing shower I feel asleep. Later that day I was released but I wasn't allowed to do soccer or any contact sports. The weeks after that day were so long and difficult that I could go on and on about what I went through. I have so much to say that I have decided to make a book. I am working on it now but it will be ready for a publisher to look at it soon. When I first got my concussion I didn't have anything to realate to and then I found this website. But I want to make this book for something people can read and realate to almost like a get away from their everyday life and to go into someone else's for a while and to see what they had to go through.

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