Women in the Medical Profession: Personal Narratives A Quest Through Chaos: My Narrative of Illness and Recovery

1 Seriously ill people need to tell stories: to their doctors, to their family, to their friends, to themselves. This article is both an illness narrative and an exploration of illness, narrative, recovery and critical disability studies. Telling illness narratives is a valuable means of recovery when the body becomes what the individual never expected it would—damaged. Narrative is vital, as the ill person works out their changing identity, and position in the world of health, continuing when they are no longer ill, but remain marked by their experience.