Journal Entry 4 Jackie Lewis

This is a hard journal entry for me. My grandparents are dead, well my father’s mother is still alive, but we are not in contact. So, I asked my mother for a family story. I was curious about her brother, my uncle. You see he was a bit of a strange bird and I always wondered why. It seems that my uncle Johnny was hit by a drunk driver when he was five years old. The way the story goes, my mother and her brother and a bunch of their friends were playing outside. They had gotten a game of kick ball together and they were playing in the field next door to my grandmother’s house. All of the sudden the ball went into the street and my mother’s brother ran out to get the ball and this big red truck came swerving and rushing down the street at a high speed. My uncle was struck and dragged under the car. The truck finally stopped and my mother’s older cousin pulled him from under the car. They rushed him to the hospital where they were told he had a brain injury and that he might not make it. They put a steel plate in his head and he was in a coma for months. He finally woke up but he was never the same. The injury did something to his brain that caused his personality to change. Not only did he change, but the whole family changed that day. The drunk driver was never caught and my uncle was bitter his entire life.