Essay One (1.5): Illness Narrative

I honestly do not know if I would have approached this essay any differently since it was a very sensitive subject for me, at least on a personal level, but coming from an academic standpoint, I probably would have tied the end into the thesis as well where I talked about my mother, and I would have also described how the doctor narrowed down what was happening to her as a disease, being her ruptured brain aneurysm, and tied in the term illness more and more when describing how my family and I had been affected. Still, at least on a personal level, I think writing this essay was therapeutic and helpful. I even talked with my therapist about how I wrote this essay about my mom, and she said that it is a good thing to write a trauma narrative like this.