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Sunday, July 25, 2010

Death Tastes Like Water

Me and a couple of my friends and their families went out boating at the lake.
Two of my friends went on the inner tube and took it for a spin around the water.
They know that I don't know how to swim but they were able to coax me into getting inside the tube. This of course, was not my first time going out and doing this, we had done it before last summer.

The main difference this time was that we were gonna have 3 people on the tube rather than the normal 2. (It's a big 3 person tube)

So I got on, sat in the middle with my friends at each side, gripped the handles tight and my friends dad started pulling the tube slowly (they didn't want to scare me or make me fall off)

As soon as the tube starts moving forward something goes wrong....
The front end of the tube starts going and taking in water.

I blink and the next thing I see is the rope attached to the tube breaking, the tube flipping over on top of me.
My body sank into the water, everything went dark, and all I could hear was people yelling and screaming "Where's Rafael"
In that moment time slowed dramatically, I saw a glimmer of light at the surface at the water from the sun, my hand reached out for something, anything to hold on to, my heart went numb, and my mind went blank.The next time I blinked I found myself clasped to the tube with both my arms, my left shoulder dislocated from the flip, and my lungs got a gasp of air.

My friends saw me emerge from the water and grabbed onto me, and started to pull me towards the boat, tube and all. (My arms were clasped strongly to the tube, I wouldn't let go) I was able to pop my shoulder back in place while they pulled me.

So here I am now, back on solid ground, alive, breathing, shoulder hurting, but none the less okay.

I have no way of describing what or how I feel right now..

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