Laughter the Cure All

I know everyone always says “you’ll laugh about this later I promise.” Well why not laugh about it right now. Laughing can always make any situation better, whether it’s a hard time, awkward, or even a good time. This I know to be true because I live by it firsthand.

It wasn’t no more than two years ago when I got that phone call. I was up in Show Low, Arizona visiting my grandparents, just hanging out having a good time. Next thing I know I get a phone call out of the blue’ it was my parents saying they are going to come pick me up but wouldn’t tell me why. So I started getting really anxious and nervous, three or four hours go by and then they finally show up. My dad tells me to get in the car and as I am I notice that my mom was crying. So as the nice kid I am I asked what the matter was? Immediately as she told me that my brother had been in a motorcycle accident, my heart sank. I don’t think I ever cried so much in my life. But, let me tell you that was the most silent car ride I’ve ever been in. As soon as I got to my house I demanded that my parents took me to the hospital with them. Like this was my older brother he shared everything with me, he taught me everything I know today. So I was devastated.

Once I got to the hospital the front counter ladies told me that my brother was in surgery so I couldn’t go up to his room. I was freaking out. So as im sitting in the lobby three or four hours go by, and finally they let me go up to see him. Once I’m up there he is asleep from the medicine still. The moment I saw him I immediately broke down. I thought to my self this is it he is dead there is nothing I can do. That night I decided to stay at the hospital with him and not go to school that following Monday. The next morning rolls around my brother is awake, I was thinking to my self like thank you god. So I ran over and gave him a big ole hug. So as the results come back from his x-rays it turns out he only broke every bone in his foot and four of his ribs and had a concussion. I started asking him if he was going to live or die or what was going to happen with him. As the kid he is he of course was finding anyway to make it a joke just because he knew that I was scared out of my mind and wanted me to not be as nervous about it. And I think that if he didn’t make jokes or make me smile the whole situation could have been so much worse and every day I thank my brother for that time. I don’t know where i’d be without him.