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Find someone who has been sick or still is sick and who is willing to talk about his or her illness experience. It is preferred that you do not interview someone close to you whose illness experience you lived through. Do not use the real name. Give yourself an hour to go through these questions in person. Tell your interviewee that this is an assignment for the humanities course called “I Feel Your Pain: Illness and Empathy in the Arts” at Excelsior College. Begin your interview by stating the questions below and making a note of each response.

Here are the interview questions:

• When did you first feel sick? What were your symptoms?
• Did you get a diagnosis and, if so, how soon after you felt sick?
• Were you treated for your condition?
• Who treated you and what were the treatments?
• Were the treatments outpatient or did you need to be hospitalized?
• Are you cured and feeling better or is this a chronic condition that will need ongoing treatment?
• Have you ever felt that the treatments were/are worse than the condition?
• Do you know what caused your condition?
• Are there lifestyle changes that you needed to make or need to make to feel better?
• What have been the major impacts of this illness on your life?
• Has your illness affected your relationships with others? If yes, how so?
• Has your condition affected your ability to work? Go to school?
• How do you feel you were treated by the practitioners involved in your care?
• Do you feel that your concerns were addressed?
• Have you learned anything about yourself that you might not have learned if you hadn’t been sick?
• Would you say that being ill has made you more or less empathetic to others?
• At any point did you think you were going to die, and if so, can you express how you felt?
• Final question: Has the telling of your story made you feel better or worse?

Reflective Essay Instructions

1. Once the interview is complete, compile your questions and responses in a word doc. On that same word doc, based on your interview, write a reflective essay concerning your insights about the person and your experience performing the interview.
2. The essay should be approximately 3-5 double-spaced pages (750-1000).
3. It is required that you refer to the course readings and materials at least 3 times in your Reflective Essay. Please use key terms from our readings, including Frank’s four tensions. Use APA style when you cite your sources in your essay.
4. Some questions to ask yourself are:

• • What kind of psychological, physical, cognitive or identity shifts did this person undergo?
  • Was the person transformed because of the illness? Did they learn any lessons from the illness experience?
  • Do you think that it helped your interviewee to tell his or her story? Please explain.
  • Were you uncomfortable or not at the interview?
  • What did you learn about this person’s experience that resonates with your own experiences?
  • What if anything were the most upsetting aspects of his or her illness experience for you to hear about?
  • Did you come away with a lesson from this person. MUST PASS TURNIT IN.