memoir

Emalie
Bailey

I
remember that day my cousin, Erica, my aunt, Aline and I went to
Bangor. It was around September, 2008. We had just left the other
side of the mall. We were on our way to Dicks Sporting Goods when my
aunt, Aline and my cousin, Erica noticed something or someone on the
side of the road.

“Is
there a person on the side of the road?” Erica asked

“Yeah,
I think she just fell,” my aunt said slowing the car down. “I
think she is hurt cause she isn't getting up.” My aunt, Aline
turned the car around. When she thought no one was stopping to help
her, a man ran over from across the street. My aunt got out of the
car to help her while me and my cousin stayed. We both looked in
shock as we saw blood all over the lady's head and bags that she had
been carrying. A minute or two later, my aunt came back into the car
looking for gloves.

“She
hit her head off of the corner of the guard rail.” she told us
“Where are some gloves?” she said looking all around the
car. “I usually have some right here. Now that I need them,
there gone.” She couldn't find any gloves so she grabbed a
handful of tissues that she had in the passenger's compartment and
went back to all the action.

“Aw,
I feel so bad for her,” I said thinking of how the woman was
just walking along the side of the road so innocently when she falls
and gets her face all beaten up.

“I
know,” my cousin, Erica said also feeling bad “poor old
lady.”

We
saw the guy that had run over from across the road calling 911. My
aunt held pressure to the woman's head as she tried to stop the
bleeding.

“Oh,
she must have tripped over that stump over there,” said my
cousin, Erica

I
looked behind where the woman was sitting and saw a fairly small
stump that she had tripped over.

“Oh,
yeah,” I said, “those people shouldn't just leave a stump
right where people walk and could trip over.”

` “Yeah,”
she said.

We
heard the siren of the ambulance coming toured us. They parked on the
side of the road, right next to them. They came out with gloves and
gave my aunt some gloves too. They normally wouldn't just give any
random person a pair of gloves to help them but my aunt told them
that she was an EMT already, she just didn't have a job as one. The
EMT's started pulling a stretcher out of the back of the ambulance.
They lifted the height of the stretcher and the woman laid her head
on a white pillow that was perfectly placed on it. My aunt Aline
finally took the gloves off and ran back to the car.

“There
was a huge hole on her forehead, so far that I could literally see
her skull.” she told us as she drove away. “And she broke
her nose. She didn't even know what was going on or how old she was
or where she was suppose to meet her friends.”

My cousin, Erica and I were kind of fascinated because we didn't
normally see stuff like that every day. My aunt, Aline was also but
not as much because she had been to accidents like that before. We
left the accident and went to Dick's Sporting Goods with something we
would always remember.