WRONG DECISION, IT COULD MEAN YOUR LIFE(Sara) This is a story that I made collected from my family life experiences. I have taken a long time creating this story to show you all the grim outcomes of taking drugs. I want you to read this and spread the awareness of drugs and their effects. One thing I want you to all remember is MAKING THE WRONG DECISION COULD, END YOUR LIFE.

Linda was on the verge of realizing her long awaited dreams. She was about to graduate from high school, also serving as a teacher’s aide to help achieve her goals of a career in teaching, and was caught up in the excitement of planning her wedding.

She and her husband had given up on raves and drugs because one evening, when they left a rave party, they noticed paramedics and cops surrounding a lifeless body and a row of ambulances outside, waiting to rush the affected drug victims to the ER. For more than five years, she stayed away from anything unhealthy. But then, as her senior prom crept up, against her husbands, families and friends wishes, she decided to take Ecstasy one more time for the prom.

She was one of the 27 prom-goers that evening to take Ecstasy. The other 26 woke up the next morning to celebrate a new beautiful day, but not Linda. Her desire to make her prom special by taking designer drugs drowns her into a coma three hours after she took the drug. She never woke up. With the love of her family, husband and dearest friends she fought to survive, but with every minute that passed by she sunk deeper and deeper into the coma, and by the second day she was declared brain dead, and there was nothing anyone could do but mourn.

Linda was buried in her prom dress.

But one thing that makes her family, husband and dearest friends hearts torn to pieces was why she was the only one at the prom that day who died. Linda didn’t overdose; she took the same amount as the other kids, she didn’t get a dose of PMA; she took the same pill as the other kids, alcohol wasn’t a factor either. Linda took two tablets of Ecstasy, and then she began to complain of a headache. She urges herself to get to the bathroom, but she didn’t make it. Linda lost consciousness and then her heart stopped.

Those who were there with her gave her CPR and got her heart beating again, but she couldn’t breathe until the paramedics came. After being rushed to the hospital and put on a respirator and life support, she held on desperately to life as time slipped by on the first day, but by the second day, there was no movement at all. All the test results showed that her brain was dead, and the hospital made the hardest decision of turning off her life supporting respirator. With a great deal of sadness, her family began saying goodbye to their dearest daughter Linda, who was full of life just two days before.

“For 10 minutes her heart fought to stay alive. For 10 minutes her heart monitor would go on a roller coaster ride to stay alive. It would go from the green zone to red and we would see her heartbeat fading, we all then said we loved her and it would go back to green. And then, all of a sudden, out of the blue, her heart would stop beating again, and then beat for the very last time.”

Unfortunately, one evening of partying, one evening in which she made a bad decision, hemorrhaged her brain and caused her brain stem to crush, causing her death. Linda's parents now grieve beside her lifeless body.

At her funeral, Linda looked gorgeous in her white prom dress. It wasn’t the end she wanted, nor the end that she deserved. Linda's life was cut short.

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