Laying completely still for 10 minutes in tall blades of grass, my heart pounded like the bass in a rap song. I felt all the blood rush to my head for the first time in my life, and I shut my eyes and saw blackness. I knew something was wrong with me, and although I had previous asthma attacks, this was undescribable. My mother was 30 miles away at our home, unaware that anything had ever happened …
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…to take things a little easier at practice and endure criticism and ridiculing from people who don't know what is wrong with me. They have shown me how ignorant people can be, and how I need to spend more time appreciating my own family for supporting me through everything. My heart is much stronger than their words, strong enough to live through being clinically dead on the operating table, and living to tell about it.