Obstacle And Setback: A Personal Narrative Analysis

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An Obstacle & Setback I had to overcome and accomplish was watching my boyfriend suffer in the hospital from brain swelling they couldn't determine and me being right next to him woken up to be told that he was gone. It impacted on me very deeply and I’ve learned a lot from this experience even though it's only been a month that he has been gone but he was in the hospital suffering for 4 months. His name was Derryl we were together for a year ½ it hurt really badly to sit there every day, my whole summer, at The University Of Michigan Hospital. To watch someone you love suffer is probably the most difficult and the most hurtful thing you can ever experience.

I am still overcoming this situation it pushed me back really bad I didn't want to go to school, and I didn't want to be bothered with anyone. I took a week off of school and work I didn't want to get behind and I could only have a certain amount of excused absences from this situation. When I came back it was hard I had a lot of work I had to catch up on. I'm still trying to get back on track also everyone kept wanting to ask …show more content…
I never thought I would ever be in a situation like this and it's taking all of me just to write this essay but this is the topic I wanted to write about. Every day that I was at the hospital I was always told how strong I am but honestly, nobody knows that I was actually not strong, anybody can fake a smile that everyone knew that wasn't real and sit there and seem okay when you weren’t. I would never let anyone see me cry I wouldn't tell people how I felt when people asked me I would just say that I'm okay when I wasn't. I didn't have the actual strength to watch him every day but I forced myself to I had knots in my stomach and I would get the chills I would want to cry every time I walked into the room he was in and every time I had to leave from being by his
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