Car Crash Victim Summary

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On the outside, I look like a normal twenty-one-year-old girl. On the inside I feel like a car crash victim. You should know I work very hard every day to look normal so you don’t ask what's wrong. I may not look sick, but you don't know how I feel. Even if I explained how I felt, you wouldn’t understand. You wouldn’t understand that everything I do is a struggle. Maybe I don’t want you to understand; I don’t want your sympathy. Jenna Birch wrote an article in May, 2016. When I read it, I felt like she was speaking to me. This article may not be the most significant thing I have read in my life, but it meant a lot to me. I related to her words, her story, her endless fight. She gave me hope that I will not fall victim to this chronic life sentence. She gave me hope to go on. I Have Fibromyalgia and This Is What It's Like To Always Be In Pain. "Pain has always been my normal, which is actually not normal at all." (Birch, 2016) Jenna Birch is twenty-four years old, she has been dealing with Fibromyalgia her entire life. The reason this article was so significant to me is because I share her pain. I know what it means to forget what "normal" feels like. Our normal is chronic pain. "I went to doctors, who sent me for tests. All came back normal. On paper, I …show more content…

Just like Birch, I spent years going to doctors trying to find out what was wrong with me. Tests after tests, scans after scans, and misdiagnosis after another. Test results would come back; I would sit on the edge of my seat, waiting for the answer to all of my questions, only to be told I was normal. How can this be considered normal? A thirteen-year-old girl is not supposed to be given a life sentence of pain with no explanation. After hearing that nothing was wrong so many times, I would hope that one day the doctor would just tell me I had cancer. At least then, I would have an answer for my

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