Children's Hospital of Michigan

Children's Hospital of Michigan is the hospital in Detroit to which Aviv was admitted as a child. After Aviv had been refusing to eat and drink for several months, her mother brought her to a doctor. The doctor eventually recommended that she take her daughter to the hospital. She was "admitted for 'failure to eat'" and ultimately diagnosed with "an unusual case of anorexia nervosa" (7). Throughout her time here, Aviv became enamored with two girls on the ward named Carrie and Hava. Although she did not understand what disordered eating meant, Aviv began to imitate her new friends. She was ultimately discharged from the hospital some weeks later, after she learned that if she ate, she would get to see her parents.

Anorexia Nervosa

Anorexia nervosa is the condition with which Aviv was diagnosed when she was six years old. Her doctors deemed it...