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My arm

When I got up from the nets I was limping with the trap dangling from my arm to the ground. They could see how worried I was and sedated me with a shot. All of the sudden all I remember was that needle hitting my skin. When I woke up slowly they were carrying me quickly to a room in a long hall way which had all the equipment they needed. Laying me down a man in the corner came up with a blue mouth mask. He put a teal tarp over my arm and started going at it.
I could faintly hear them talking while I was sleeping. When I woke up again they were taking the tarp off of me and placing it to the side of the small crowded room. I lifted up my head to look at where my arm used to be but is now just a stump. There were more people coming over to bring me back to the van to reunite me with my new family. When I was in the van on the plastic table women started to put a liquid that would heal the scar that would be left behind.
As we got closer to the house the women stepped aside and a special girl came to help me learn to walk before they released me. I was so confused on how to even stand up with only three legs. Eventually I was able to stand up and walk around the small space of the white van.
I felt a sudden jolt of when the truck stopped in the street near my new house. They grabbed me and brought me over to the back yard in which Cheyenne and her parents were still worrying and waiting for me to come back.
Bending down the man let go of me and let me go to Cheyenne or into the woods behind my house. As the people left I transformed back and felt like Bethany Hamilton with out her arm for the first time.
" Alice your back!" Cheyenne screamed and gave me a big bear hug. " how are you doing?" She was rubbing the stump on where my left arm was supposed to be.
" I feel like Bethany!" I replied exhausted to Cheyenne. I walked inside and sat down on the couch.
" we need to get you a prosthetic arm so you will look normal when you go to school tomorrow and so you will be able to use it as you used to use it." Amy exclaimed. " I will want both of you in the car in five minutes top so we can go to the prosthetic store to get Alice a new arm."
" my surgery was very weird because I slept through most of it from this shot they gave me in my back." I started to answer Cheyennes question. I walked towards the front door and walked out to Amy's black SUV. I buckled my self in and waited on Cheyenne to come.
" I'm coming Alice!" She giggled while looking through my she walked around and hopped into her seat and buckled up. When I Buckled up I struggled like a squirrel opening a nut. Chris got into the front passenger seat and buckled him self in too.
Amy backed out of the pebble drive way and slowly started to exit the neighbor hood. We got onto the main road and took a pretty long trip to a prosthetic limbs store.
As we got to the parking lot of the store Amy backed up into a empty space and opened her door to get out. She unlocked our doors to help us get out quicker. Amy led us across the busy road that was in front of the store. She opened the door and let us in.
" Alice go ahead and loon for the right match for you!" Chris said," I will be able to make your blood flow through the prosthetic arm so you can still you know what." He walked over to where I was looking at the kid sizes for the arm.
I started to pick up a smooth arm that was the same hue as my skin. I put it slowly onto the stump on my left arm and tried to move it around. The prosthetic arm made electronically movements that my brain waves sent to it.
" this one is pretty cool and decent arm that fits perfectly but I may go with a more realistic looking arm." I said to myself softly. I walked over to another section which has arms with real looking arm hairs on them. I put one on and started moving it around.
" this one looks better and is softer to the touch. It is way cooler and is on sale so what do you think about this one?" I said to Chris. Looking at him I saw that he was soon about to answer.
" sure I could modify that prosthetic arm to where it transforms with you. You won't even have to take it off if you want to." Chris replied softly to me. Cheyenne and her mom Amy were standing at the check out counter waiting for me to decide.
" we have one that I chose which is on sale for $239.23." I said while handing them the arm which was in a plastic bag.
" that's a very smart choice Alice. I'm glad you got one that looks realistic so that kids won't notice what happened." Amy replied to me. With a slight tone that was saying that I made the best decision.
Amy put the arm on the counter where a young man with lots of black heads scanned the arm.
" $239.23 please and thank you." The man said with a very deep voice which surprised me because of how young he looked. He stuffed the arm in a bag and gave it back to us once Amy put the money on the counter.
" let's go!" Amy said.