This audio story is also powerful. What
makes it so good is the fact that you can tell the woman’s voice sounds
somewhat young and the fact that she is going through her daily routine telling
us that she has a note card with her to remind her the date tells us that she
has some kind of condition. It is a shocking story actually and it’s interesting
to hear because it makes it very easy to understand and to try to place
yourself in her shoes. A detail that I picked up on was that she said she
cannot remember when she eats and that she sometimes has to write that down
also. Imagine having to do that? That to me is crazy because when you think
about conditions like the one she has, you automatically relate it with older
people and you don’t stop to think that it could really happen to anybody.
This is a sad story because it tells how her surgery
really affected her life and the things she is capable of doing now. Although it
is a setback for you, or at least you would think it is, she also mentions how
her and her boy friend accomplished running a marathon. That goes to show that
she isn’t totally incapable of being normal and doing things that other people
are out doing. What made it more powerful was that the
interviewer was her boyfriend. He walked her through it and I liked how the
emotions in the story aren’t so heavy and depressing although it is too a sad
story. For me it was kind of a rollercoaster
ride with my emotions. At first I felt sad and shocked and I felt bad for her
but then I saw that her boy friend was there and that he helps he no matter how crazy her stories are or what
she does and that sense of pity went away. Hearing them both laugh also took
away from how serious the interview first was but I wouldn’t say that took away
from how powerful it is, it made it all the more powerful in my opinion because
it lightened the mood and showed that it doesn’t bring them down. They continue
to live their lives.
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