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A Day Like This

Shanique Grierson

Thud! All of a sudden I was screaming my heart out. My Brothers were running and jumping on top of my old toy car so I took it upon myself to have a go. My brothers ran me inside to my mum and she shouted on Pap and whizzed me to Northampton general. We sat in the waiting room forever and then we got in to see a nurse. The nurse checked my face over and decided I did not need stitches.

After they cleaned it up and put butterfly stitches over it with a plaster on top. Later they gave us some more butterfly stitches and we went home. I felt really sad because it hurt a lot. It was such a coincidence because I thought some thing was going to happen when I woke up but I just forgot about it because I was having so much fun. When we got home I had my tea and my mum told Nan and my brothers what had happened at the hospital. A couple of hours later I got a bath and got into my pyjamas and went to bed.

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