This is the story of Percy “The Inspiration” McSwaggerton. Percy is a 23 year old black man. When he was a kid, he was a very sickly child. He always used to get sick off everything. Then at the age of 17, he had thought he made a breakthrough in his life after he didn’t get sick for 6 straight months. Then he went to the University of Harvard to get his degree in medicine. When there, there was a young lady named Ashley Johnson who took an interest in Percy. Once they met up in a party and then started to date. Then one day they just decided that they love each other and they got married while still in college. At the age of 23, he was already a married man. They are both geniuses in what they major in. Then after getting their Doctorate’s Degree in medicine, they went to work for their local hospital. Then they met a patient named Emmanuel Peters. He was a very sickly person who couldn’t get to the hospital so Percy had to go to his home on the ranch were they saw him. He had malaria so he gave him some medicine and he got better in a few weeks. But something else happened while they were there. Percy first had to walk through Emmanuel’s chicken farm and it was not a very sanitary place. He also breathed in and accidentally touched the chicken poop on the wall. When Percy gave Emmanuel the medicine, Percy had a slight cough while he left. Did he catch a disease from touching the poop, walking past the chickens or just from Emmanuel?
A couple of days later, Percy had a high fever, terrible cough, and a lot of other things wrong with him after the encounter with Emmanuel’s chicken farm. He was later put into a hospital to undergo further testing by his wife who was worried about him. She had also taken care of him and was shocked by his symptoms. They ran tests on him day and night and concluded that he had an unknown disease. He was bedridden for about two weeks. Percy was so sad and angry that this was the outcome. He had lived a good life and thought his life was over until Ashley said they thought that ordinary flu medicine would help. It cured his cough and runny nose but not his other symptoms that had developed. He now had an eye infection, acute respiratory distress, and pneumonia. So the only thing to do was make a miracle cure.
Later that same week after he was on the brink of dying they had made the cure. It was a vaccine shot they had tested and worked on birds. So they gave him the shot and they now just had to wait. Ashley was the most concerned because they had only been married that year and she was about to lose him already. She said that there would be some side effects of this disease and they were dizziness, amnesia, headaches and back pain.
After a few days of the treatment his body just gave out. He was dead at 5:09 p.m. on Sunday, October 27, 2008. He was the first patient to have this disease but not the first being as birds have had it for about 100 years. Ashley, having been around Percy so much had contracted the disease herself and was also given the vaccine, she survived. Tests say that the only reason she survived was she went to the hospital immediately while Percy did not. Ashley now studies this disease as much as she can so she can figure out what happened to her husband and now continues Percy’s and her legacy.
