#25

Back when I was still in high school I was into doing drugs big time. I was one of the outcast drugie people in high school that no one really talked to and I really just kept to myself. Well one night my friend and I wanted to get high off of mushrooms and I was talking to this guy who lived up by Chicago and he knew someone who could get me some really good stuff. My friend had to work that night so I was responsible for going to Chicago by myself at 17 and I had just gotten my license. I had never really been outside of the general central Illinois before. The furthest I had ever driven was to Peoria. So I get on-line and go to mapquest.com to print off directions to get to his house. I get on I-39 and head up to Chicago and I got there just fine no problems. Me and this guy hung out for a couple hours smoked and had a good time. It was around 7 o clock and I told him that I needed to start heading back home so I gave him the money for the mushrooms and he gave them to me. I started to head back realizing that I did not print off the reverse directions to get back home. So myself being high as a kite I tried to remember the best I could how to get home. Well needless to say that did not happen the way I wanted it to. I called my brother and my friend to tell them that I was lost I told them where I was and they looked it up on a map and they told me that I was down south of Champaign Well I did not have enough gas to even make it to Bloomington let alone all the way back home to Eureka. I stayed on the phone with them while they directed me back to where I needed to be until I ran out of gas about 20 miles south of Bloomington. I lied to my parents and told them I went to see a friend in Bloomington and got lost on trying to get back home. My parents were very mad that I went to Bloomington and got lost then ran out of gas but they brought me gas anyway. But of course my friend was freaking out that a cop would come up behind me to see if I needed any help because I was on the side of the interstate because I had drugs on me. Well I eventually made it back home around 10pm so instead of making it home in like 2 ½ hours I made it home in about 5 hours.

#30

On Tuesday September 25, 2007 I was 9 months pregnant and sitting in the living room playing a spider solitaire on the computer it was around 9:30pm. I got up from the computer and headed up the hallway to my bathroom to go take a shower and get ready for bed. I got out of the shower dried off got dressed and headed to bed. I sat down on my queen size bed turned on my television and laid back in bed barely seeing my television over my huge belly. I thought that the baby kicked me in the bladder and made me pee my pants a little bit so I got up out of bed and went to the bathroom but I did not have to go to the bathroom so I went back to bed. Well next thing I know it happens again so I go down the hallway to my sister's room and by the time I had gotten to my sisters room my pants were soaked. My mom had already went to bed around 8pm so she was well beyond passed out. My sister runs down stairs to my parents room to wake my mom up screaming “Celania water just broke!!!!” My mom comes up stairs half awake not knowing exactly what's going on. She looks down at the hallway at me wearing soaked pants tells me to go get changed and we'll head to the hospital. I go up to my bedroom get changed and get things packed to head to the hospital. My sister, mom and I get in my parents vehicle and head to the hospital and its a good thing I wasn't in full blown labor because my mom did about 50mph all the way from Eureka to Peoria. We get to the hospital and I have to go in threw the emergency room because it was after hours. I get sent straight up to the maternity floor to get checked out turned out that my water had broke but I had a hole in the top of my sack so it was leaking. They put me in a room and around 2am I was in full blown labor contractions and all. I wanted the epidural right away after I had my 2nd or 3rd contraction so they give me the epidural and I'm fine until about 6am when it starts wearing off and I'm feeling the contractions 100% so they give me some more medicine. By 10:30am the epidural had completely worn off again and once again I was feeling every contraction and by this point they are within seconds of each other. At 11:41am on Wednesday September 26th 2007 I gave birth to my beautiful blue baby girl. She was blue because her umbilical cord was wrapped around her neck. They stitched me up and took Elizabeth to the nursery to get her cleaned up and get all of her vitals. I was moved to a private room from the birthing room and I did not let Elizabeth go back to the Nursery at all the whole time we were at the hospital other than to get shots. I tried to breastfeed but that did not happen as planned so the whole time we were at the hospital I did not get any sleep at all because my newborn daughter did not sleep. Actually I did not get actual sleep until she was about 3 months old. So from September 25th when I woke up that morning to September 29th I did not sleep at all. I slept every time she did until she was about 6 months old when I started working again.

#14

I am 15 years old and I obviously do not have my license but who cares right. My parents bought me a car for my 15th birthday and I had the key to the car. Well my parents had went out one night so my friend, my brother and I decided it would be a good idea to go out and jump railroad tracks and drive around the country roads because it was the cool thing to do in a small town. I of course had to take my little sister so she wouldn't tell my parents that I took my car out of the driveway. So we were just driving around jumping railroad tracks having a good time until we decided to jump a set of tracks that was right off of a state highway. So I speed up as fast as my beater will go and we jump the tracks next thing I know I look to my left and there is a semi coming so I do all I know to do and I hit the breaks as hard as I could and I swear we went from mid-air straight down. Then less than 4 feet in front of my car passes the semi. Right after that we went straight back to my house and just sat there the rest of the night acting like nothing had happened. For quite sometime after that happened I was afraid of getting anywhere near a semi and as funny as it my daughter's father is now a semi driver.

15

I've only had about one major life change that was when I found out I was pregnant with my daughter. I had moved out of my parents house the day the rest of my class was graduating. I wasn't allowed to go threw the ceremony because I was ¼ of a credit short. I moved in with my boyfriend of a short 3 months and we were together for 2 years and engaged to be married but I had a change in plans. He became very controlling and pushed me over the edge. I kept trying to leave him and he wouldn't let me leave and he kept threatening to kill himself if I ever left him. Of course I felt bad so I said well all of that started in October and by late December I had started talking to my ex boyfriend from when I was in high school. He was engaged to be married also and had a child on the way with his fiancée. We decided to hang out one day and well one thing lead to another and we ended up hooking up. We both kept it a secret from everyone including our husband and wife to be. Well we started hanging out more at night because my fiancée worked 3^rd shift. One night I got my fiancée's vehicle for he night and I met up with Adam, my daughter's father, in Bloomington because he did a paper route out there. After the route we went back to my apartment and of course one thing lead to another and our daughter was conceived. My fiancée kicked me out and I had to move back into my parents. Before my daughter was conceived I had no idea what I was going to do with my life. When I found out that I was pregnant my whole entire world flipped over. I would do anything and everything for my daughter she is my whole entire world.