Personal Narrative: A & E's Intervention

It was the beginning of my freshman year of highschool when my mom began to see bugs in my food, my mattress, and any place imaginable, or rather the beginning of my mom’s hallucinations. That year I found out my mom was addicted to crystal meth. I could not believe it. We went from watching A&E’s Intervention together, a show about drug addicts, to my mom becoming a drug addict. That is when my world came crashing down. It was the start of one of the most important times of my life and knowing that my mom would not be there to mentally, emotionally, and often physically, support me was tough. It was extremely hard not being able to eat because my mom swore there were bugs in my food to my mattress being thrown out because “it was infested with bedbugs.” It was tough having to call other people to give me a ride to school because my mom was not capable of doing so. Not being able to go to sleep because I was worried my mom would leave in the middle of the night because she was jacked up on meth. But this was just a regular day
My dad always supported my school efforts and worked so hard to provide for my sister and me. At the age of 17, my dad came illegally to this country in search of a better life, and has been so successful thus far and serves as a role model in my life. I beg to differ with Donald Trump when he said, “Mexico does not send their best,” because my dad certainly is the best. Besides the rapists and killers, my dad went from being a bricklayer to now being vice president of a masonry company who still works over 60 hours a week. Even though I know he is exhausted everyday, he never complains. Although my dad has been a great supporter, he’s hardly around. I wake up for school and he’s gone, get home from school, and he is still gone. The few hours a day my dad does get relax and take his mind off of work, I’m busy working on my