Personal Narrative: An Interview With My Grandmother

In this paper I choose to interview my grandmother. I thought that her experience with adulthood and different changes that happen in her life would be an interesting story to share and know more about. Saadia is 76 years old and she is my paternal grandmother which I lived with her all my life before I got married and move to the United States.
My grandmother is from Morocco. Her parent never send her to school. When she was a little girl she lost her father and when she turned to the early adulthood she lost her mother. Also she had one brother that she lost couple decade ago. When she was a 17 years old, she got married and started her adulthood responsibilities earlier in life starting with taking care of home that include her husband …show more content…
It was the death of her son in early age especially after getting married and he just had a baby girl. This event was most choking for her because it was not expected for the loss of her son which was in his early adulthood. This illustrates well the no normative life events that can happen to anyone of us but the timing of this wish matter in this situation. According to “developmental psychologist Bernice Neugarten advised us back in 1976, we have to pay attention not only to the event itself, but also to the timing” (Bjorklund, 2015). This sad event was hard for her to overcome and took long time to accept the situation and to deal with the fact that she lost one of her kids and try to live with her …show more content…
So I asked her how she feel about her health problem and how she see the progress of her condition during last decade. She started her answer by saying” when I was in your age I never said I am tired our generation was so active than your generation.” I was not surprise by this because I believe it is true. Then she said that her health condition is increasing with age. The first thing that changes during her early adulthood was the problem in vision which was corrected by using glasses. Then she has problem with her high blood pressure which was also controlled by medicine, the other thing that she has is an increase in the cholesterol level which was causing her a problem in the vlood circulation but she did a very good regime with the medication and she was able to overcome this one too. But the last problem that she just had within the last year is her knee problem. She lost the water that is located in the knee. This problem reduced her activity outside home. And she said that can be an effect for the two fractures she had when she was in her early adulthood in the same leg. This explanation of her health problem illustrate exactly what Lachman said about the biological and physical changes that happen during adulthood “Some of the common changes that may emerge in the middle years include back and joint pain, tooth and