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A Realization

There I was sound asleep dreaming, and not knowing I was in a small coma. As I look back on what happened I realize just how lucky I am to be alive. A boy of eight has a feeling of being indestructible. I on the other hand had the benefit to learn to appreciate life at a young age.
The summer of 1997 was just like any other to me. I hung out with my good friends that I still talk too to this day. We would round up some change from the couch cushions and choose to go to the movies or the public pool. All in all just an average fun summer. One day I woke up in the morning and found myself with a horrible headache. I went into my mother's room and woke her out of bed. I told my mother about my headache and she brushed it off as a small cold. My mother did not realize at the time that most children rarely get headaches at such a young age. When my mother found out how much pain I was in, she took me to bed and made me lay down like any good mother would. Once I was down on the bed she grabbed the thermometer and stuck it in my mouth. I remember it tasting like tinfoil and hurting my teeth. When she saw that I was running a high temperature she decided I must have a fever from the common cold. I stead in bed for the rest of that day and slept. I laid in bed the next morning extremely tried and stiff. I felt as if I could not move my neck and the light in the room hurt my eyes. I called my mother and asked for her to close my curtains. My kind hearted mother did as I requested and assumed I just wanted to rest more. My mother thought I would bounce back and gave me one more day to sleep, hoping that in the morning I would be fine. The next day she found that I was only worse and I could see it in her eyes that something was wrong. She took me straight to the hospital.
When we got to the hospital I don't remember waiting for the doctor. The first that I remember was finding out that the doctor had to do a test to see what was wrong with me. When I was...

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