The Rare One
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Chelsea Dennis, Grade 9
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Short Story
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2017
2001-2005
Hi I’m Chelsea Dennis I was born on the 13/12/2001 at 2:30am Frances-Perry hospital. I was due on Christmas day but came 12days early. A funny thing is my mum is born on the 10, 10 my sister is the11, 11 I was nearly born on the12, 12 my mum went into labour on the 12, 12. As a child I stopped breathing my lips went blue, I was diagnosed with sleep apnoea. This went till I was 4 years-old, It is not rare but it’s scary.
2005
My sister Caitlin was born 11/11/2005 on the 11th floor in room 11, this was freaky. My sister and I are best friends. We do anything for each other, it’s rare for sisters to have a bond like ours. When I was in kinder my mum knew I was different.
2005-2007
I had a hearing test and a cognitive test because I was struggle to learn, my name and colours. It showed that I have auto-memory, auto-visual and auto-processing problems. I’m called Dory due to this. Having all three is rare. I am happy to take it on. I just learn a little different to others.
2008-2014
I was still getting my colours confused, so they did some more test. I was diagnosed with red green colour-blindness. I can see the traffic light colours, it’s just shades of colours I struggle with, my dad is the same but for girls it’s rare. In 2010 I was in and out of the hospital, not able to go to school for full days, for over 3months. I was diagnosed with hypo-mobility-syndrome. This is when my nerves came away from my spine and it’s like running a marathon.
2015-2016
I had a sore foot, thought I sprained it after tripping over. But a week later and it wasn’t any better. We went to the doctors and they thought I had sprained it. I had x-rays it was inclusive, they said it was a sprained-ankle. We got a moonboot as we were going on holidays. We travelled to Singapore and Thailand in the moonboot. When we got home the pain was worse and couldn’t stand. I went back to the doctors and I got crutches. My mum persisted for a MRI which was the next day. The MRI results were sent straight to my doctor. The next morning my doctor said that I had fibrocartilage collision (statues disease).We had to see a surgeon ASAP, which is Gary Nattrass he sent us for a CT, he booked us in for an appointment the CT showed it was in both feet. A week later I was in an emergency-operation on my right foot after the first operation I had an allergic-reaction to the medication. My second one was done in 2016 which was my left, that one was all good as they used different medication. This is me (DORY), I may be different but in a good way because if we were all the same life would be very boring.