Monday, March 20, 2017

Fight or Flight

last summer my cousins, my 7 year old brother, my boyfriend and i were at my house and we were all having a sleepover while my stepmom went out with one of her friends and my dad was out of town on a business trip so we were completely home alone. there was a gate at the top of my staircase to separate my 2 dogs from my 3 cats because one of my dogs, he was new to my family and he is a rescue, didn't get along with my cats. somebody left the gate open so my cat Bella went downstairs and my dogs chased after her and cornered her in the downstairs bathroom. i started screaming for someone to come help me and my cousin becca because we were the only two downstairs at that time. we got one of my dogs out of the bathroom and during that time my dog Lexi, who has been around these cats since we got her, took my cat in her mouth and i knew in that moment there was literally nothing i could do to save my cat, Lexi is a pitbull boxer mix and pitbull's jaws lock and you cant open them. 

from the moment it all started i was in complete shock. i was a mess. i was screaming and crying for someone to help and everyone was screaming at me trying to figure out what to do but i just stood there and did nothing. i had my cousin ryan and boyfriend joel try to do something to have my dog's jaw unlock but nothing worked. i left the bathroom and just stood there in my living room crying with my cousin becca. i had my cousin emily and gracie turn the tv on in my room and make sure the volume was really loud and for him not to come out until i said so. then i paced around my house and started doing the dishes and picking up all my brother's toys, while crying, and then my boyfriend came and grabbed me and i fell to the floor crying because i didn't know what to do. my cousin becca called their dad and told him everything that happened and he was there within minutes. he asked me where trash bags and paper towels were and he cleaned up the mess for me. soon after he called my stepmom and told her what happened and she was there in the next 15 minutes. so i think its pretty accurate to what my test score is. i think im more of a flighter than a fighter depending on the situation, i made sure my brother was okay and he didn't see or hear anything that was going on

when i was 10 i was at home watching my brother, stepmom and dad's child, with my mom my brother and i were in the bathroom and i was brushing my teeth or hair or something like that and he was sitting on the toilet. i walked out of the bathroom to go tell my mom something and as i was walking back into the bathroom i see my brother falling face first off the toilet and on his way down he hit the metal railing on my bathtub and split his eye open. i ran to pick him up and i set him on the counter and started cleaning up the blood and calling for my mom. she told me she'd call my dad and stepmom while i cleaned him up and bandaged him up that would last until we got to the hospital and i did what was needed.

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