A Hidden Disease essays

A Hidden Disease essays The daily routine my mother goes through may seem normal to someone who doesn't live with her day in and day out. She gets up in the morning, makes my dad coffee and breakfast and then watches the morning show on ABC. When my dad goes off to work, she begins her routines. My mom starts off jump-roping for an hour, then proceeds to weight-lifting for anorther hour. In the morning she exercises for about three hours. One might say,"Well good for her' I wish I had the time in my life to do that." Or "Wow, she is in really good shape." This would be true, but what they don't know is that my mother has a very serious disease known as Bulimia. To me is is very apparent. I'vew watched her routines for about three years now and it is only scaring me more and more everyday. It has scared me to the extent that I have had repetive nightmares about waking up and finding her dead. I've told my sister about this and she just blocks it out, not wanting to come to grips with what is really wrong with our mom. My mom has always been a very small person. She is 4'11 and most of her life has been about a size 3. She has always been a very attractive woman. The biggest size she ever wore was a 6. She is a confident woman and has always had a relatively high self-esteem. It was not until after her fourth child was born that her Bulimia became evident and apparent. It was and still is a gradual disease. At first, when we would question her not eating, she would tell us that she didn't want lunch because she had been snacking on things throughout the day. Nobody ever saw these snacks thought because my dad works and the kids were always in school, so there was no proof that she was really eating during the day we kind of ignored it. She no longer tells people about snacks, and if you ask her about food before 6pm she will tell you she just isn't hungry. My mom eats dinner. She eats on a smaller plate than everyone else a...