Personal Narrative: Celiac Disease

Life was not always easy for me, it gave me challenges, circumstances which were really hard for me to digest. But I somehow completed those challenges and tackled those circumstances. My family always supported me and helped me to meet my goals. I was in a town of the World’s seventh largest country, India, where people care about each other, they feel for each other. This was the time when I was in middle school, I was a moderate student in the class, so in exam days, me and my friends used to do sleep overs at my home and we all used to study together. We did everything together, we played together, we learned everything together, I was enjoying that time a lot. But I was constantly frightened of one thing in my lifetime; “never …show more content…
Now what is it? How it happened? And some others questions strike in my mind and my parents too. We possessed no estimation, my dad rushed to the doctor and asked her what is it? Celiac disease occurs when the body reacts abnormally to gluten, a protein found in wheat, rye, barley, and possibly oats. When someone with celiac disease eats foods containing gluten, that person's immune system causes an inflammatory response in the small intestine, which damages the tissues and results in impaired ability to absorb nutrients from foods. What? I couldn’t eat wheat, which is the most significant and most eaten cereal in north …show more content…
No one knew about this allergy in my city. But at least, I found the solution to all of my Medical issues. Now I just have to find things that I can eat. This was really hard for me to stop eating what I am consuming for years. I was not able to take that I can’t eat candies, chocolates and other stuff which I loved to eat as a kid. I started getting frustrated from this but my health started improving so I was happy. This incident just changed my life, I started being more careful for what I’m eating. Everyone started giving priority to me…ha-ha. I started giving knowledge about this disease to people near me. Everyone showed sympathy to me, which was not taken by me, I didn’t like that. I was glad with my life; I was accepting everything positively, as some years ran it all became normal, I went to college and everything just went fine. The only trouble that I faced was the unavailability of gluten free food. I had to eat only rice as most of the food contained gluten. But still I compromised because of my studies. My aunt helped me coming out of this, she bought gluten free products from America and send them to me. My friends accompanied me in college, they also gave up eating things that I can’t eat. Two years of my college were a big challenge for me, some of the days in college, I don’t eat food because I was bored of eating the same food. Going home from my hostel was like coming to heaven because I had