The Life Of Raj

            Raj ________ was a boy born on April 19, 1999. He was born and raised in Ontario, Canada. Throughout the 16 years of his life, Raj ________ has had many different journeys and experiences, especially in the medical field. An example would be when Raj was just a mere three weeks old; he had to have a surgery due to a hernia in his right hip. To this day Raj's mother tells him stories about the surgery. She would tell him how his face would become tomato red because of all the pain the hernia inflicted upon him. She would also tell him how his surgery had been pushed off for so many days due to more severe cases at the time, causing the nurses to keep him hungry day after day.
             A few years pass and Raj is now 10 years old. Raj finds out that he has to have yet another surgery, this time in his left knee. The doctors told him that they had noticed an abnormal growth of calcium in his left knee. This excess would restrict Raj from bending his knee with the full range of motion, as one would have with a normal knee. The surgery was quite a big surgery and it lasted for a few hours. "I can still remember the anesthesiologist telling me to count down from ten," said Raj. "It was one of the weirdest feelings you could ever come across." The recovery of this surgery had been no walk in the park either. Raj had to stay at the hospital for almost more than three weeks! After spending three weeks recovering at the hospital, Raj finally got to go home only to realize he was to stay an additional two weeks in bed. He was also required to continue his physiotherapy at home for many months to come. .
             Even after the surgery, Raj's knee was not fully healed, although the range of which he could bend his knee had been extended, he still could not bend it completely. After the surgery, Raj had to go back to the hospital for a yearly check up, to ensure everything was going in the right path.