This May will mark five years since Norah’s hospitalization for anorexia. As a family we have each grown, changed and healed—each of us have stories and memories. Norah was 11, in May of 2017, when she spent a month hospitalized with a dangerously low heart rate and was given a feeding tube for nutrition.

I asked Norah if she would let me interview her for this piece. She said yes. Here are her words…