Saving Sara

I was five years old when my best friend was diagnosed with lukemia cancer, Sara was six. It was one of the most scary things that I had expirienced. With the hair being gone, and the bags under her eyes, and all of the tubes that they had poken into her body. Needles. Chemo. Blood.
It was horrifying.
The first time wmy mom and I went to see Sara in the hospital, Sara told me to tell her dad that I had the chicken pocks. When I did say that, his eyes widened, then he realised that I was just kidding and he gave me a wink and a grin!- Please note that chicken pocks can be deadly to lukemia victems.
The second time we went to visit, it was a year later and Sara and I played war with a dec of cards that had smiley faces on the back!
"I win!" said Sara as we had completed that deck,"Rematch?"
"Deal!"I said,"I'm sure that I'll beat you this time!"
But yet once again the victory was Sara's!
I remember that moment so vividley, when we wheeled the medicine cart out to the playing area for children that were in the hospital. I remember Sara saying to me that she had been in a photo shoot and was on the cover of a magazine! I was so exited for her!
About a half a year later, when my mom and I were meeting my grandpa at T.G.I. Fridays, my mother and I were looking at some squirrel tracks that were lightly denting the diamondlike snow that had fallen the day before. That was when I shut the door, but without realising it, my mom grabbed my hand and started to walk towards the restaraunt, but something hurt, bad. My finger was shut along with the door! I tried to yank it out, but that only made things worse, so my mom then unlocked the car and there was so much blood, that we started looking for the tip of my finger! So we got some ice from Fridays and rushed to a hospital emergency room, and that was when I saw Sara's agazine! It was so cool that we ripped off the cover and gave it to Sara!
How could I have been so dumb to not have realised this! Sara wasn't on the magazine because she had cancer! She was on the magazine because she had survived it! That was why we were going to her house, for the welcome home Sara! Thank goodness! When we got there, Sara showed me a teady bear that she had gotten from the nurses that had a white t-shirt on with big red writing that said, "CANCER SUCKS!!!"
Sara had the chance to live for the next three years. The true miracle about this story, is that that was five years ago!