Birth:
It all started when my dad got the phone call from Holles Street hospital in Dublin. They rang and said “Hello Mr Sargent your wife has just been rushed to the delivery room with your premature son”. So he rushed from Naas all the way to Dublin. But when he was just ten minutes away he got stopped by the police. The policeman asked where he was going as it was nearly midnight. So of course dad said mum was rushed into the delivery room with his baby boy. But the policeman didn’t believe him so he said he would follow him and see where he was going. So dad had to stay dead on the speed limit with the policeman right behind him.
When he pulled into the hospital driveway he parked the car and rushed into reception and asked where they had taken Megan Sargent. The receptionist told him where mum was and asked a nurse to escort him to the delivery room.
A few hours later I was born. Most babies are born at 40 weeks but I was born at 31 weeks and 5 days. Because I was so early I wasn’t breathing so the midwife picked me up and as she walked across the room she showed me to mum. Then the curtain was pulled aside and there was 2 Intensive Care Doctors and 2 Intensive Care Nurses.
I was taken to ICU 1 where the really sick babies go. It was 4 hours before my mum and dad got to see me. I had lots of tubes and monitors on me to make sure I didn’t stop breathing and that my heart was ok. They had to put a tube down my throat to give me oxygen. The nurses had to take my bloods everyday. I had brain scans and kidney scans regularly so they could see that my organs were working properly. I had to be fed through a Nasal Gastro tube that went through my nose, down my throat and into my belly. But I was a very naughty baby. Whenever the nurse had put the tube in I would get my little finger, tuck it under the tube and pull it out. I was in the incubator for about 2 weeks and 2 days. When I was born I weighed 4 pounds eight ounces. I also had Jaundice which is when your kidneys don’t work properly. I had to go under these special lights but I kept pulling my safety goggles off. Just another thing to annoy the nurses.
Baby sister:
Unlike me, my sister was born on time. Her name is Chloe. By the time she was born I was 4 years old. When she was born she weighed 7 pounds 6 ounces. The first person to hold her was dad. But while he was holding her, she peed on him. It was ok when she was a baby, apart from the yelling and screaming in the middle of the night, but it went a whole nother step up when she learned how to talk. The talking in general wasn’t bad but when she sang it was pretty ear aching.
My appendix:
I had just had my breakfast when my tummy started to feel really sore and yucky. It was unlike any stomach pain I had ever had. I had stayed at my uncles that night and he didn’t know what to do so he rang up my parents and they took me to the hospital. It turned out my appendix was about to explode so they rushed me to the operating table and a few hours later I is was in the kids ward. The had to keep me in for a couple of days just in case anything bad happened.
Moving to New Zealand:
We moved to New Zealand when I was 7 years old. It was my first time on a big A380 airplane. From Ireland we had to fly all the way to Los Angeles. We spent about an hour there looking at the shops. When we came to this one shop I spotted a hat that I really liked. I asked mum if I could have it and they said yes. I still have it to this day. Then from Los Angeles we flew to Australia. We didn’t have long to wait there so shortly after the flight we hopped onto a smaller plane that took us to our final destination, New Zealand. The first person to greet us was Nana. Nana lives in Ngatea. At the time she lived on Bener Drive on the edge of Ngatea. She lived in a three bedroom house with little a dog named Charlie.
Three weeks went by until I joined the local school. When I walked into the Main office I was greeted by two office ladies named Kelly and Leanne. When I had got my stationery and book bag sorted we waited until my teacher was ready to meet me. When my new teacher walked in I had to look directly upward to be able to see her face, in other words she was very tall. Her name was Ms Williams and she was the head teacher of the High Fives. I don’t remember much of what happened that day but I do remember when we were sitting on the mat and I had to say who I was and tell them where I came from.
Thames Swim Club:
I started swimming at Thames Swim Club in 2016. There are five squads, Junior Development, Development, Bronze, Silver and Gold. I started in Junior Development. I quickly moved up through the squads and now I am in Bronze. I have been in Bronze for a while and don’t think I will move up any time soon. My coach Sophie has left the swimming club and has become a chef so now the head coach Paul is training my group. I have qualified for the Central North Island Junior Champs in October 2017. It is the same weekend as my 12th birthday.
