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The Nail

By Aniyah Conners

It was a blazing hot day in Jonesboro, Louisiana in my small town where everyone

knows everyone, and I was playing outside being the bad kid I always was when I was little. I

was at my daddy’s house in the backyard playing on the trampoline, swimming in the pool, and

playing with my blue nose pitbull with no shoes on. I was chasing my dog when all of a sudden,

I felt a sharp pain in my foot. I sat down on the ground and looked at the bottom of my foot. I

noticed a tiny, silver nail in my foot. I slowly took the nail out of my foot and ran straight to the

bathroom. With every step I took, my foot left a trail of blood.

Once I made it to the bathroom, I felt really dizzy and dehydrated. I sat on the toilet and found

a big t-shirt to wrap around my foot and help stop the bleeding. My adrenaline was pumping so it

didn’t hurt that bad, but I was shocked. I called my mom on my little, cracked LG phone. I told

her what happened and she immediately started panicking. Since we lived in a small town, it

didn't take her long to come to pick me up.

She took me to the emergency room. They told me since the nail wasn't rusty, my foot

wouldn’t become infected. They soaked my foot in some purplish liquid; the smell was so strong

that I could almost taste it. They wrapped my foot up and after a few days, my foot was fine.

However, to this day my foot is still sensitive in that spot. Since then I’ve always made sure I

have shoes on when I am outside or even walking around my house.