Sickened: The True Story of a Lost Childhood by Julie Gregory

Author:Julie Gregory [Gregory, Julie]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: General, Child Abuse, Abuse, Biography & Autobiography, Family & Relationships, Women, Personal Memoirs, Biography, Psychology, Medical, Child & Adolescent, Patients, Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy, Gregory; Julie, Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy - Patients, Psychotherapy
ISBN: 9780553381979
Publisher: Bantam
Published: 2003-01-02T00:00:00+00:00

The rest of the day my other friends are cool to me. In fifth period history I am passed the note. Missy's fat script letters pen out: “We know you made the whole thing up, trying to get us to feel sorry for you. It won't work. Nobody's mom does those things and we hate you for lying. You are scumbucket trash. We want nothing to do with you.” Scratched at the bottom are all ten of my girlfriends' names.

HEART SURGERY, IODINE INJECTIONS, tubes shoved, slits sliced, blood drawn. These things change a kid. At the cellular level. You forget what you were like before they cut you, before they shaved you. The past drifts away; inaccessible. You only look to the future when they'll find what's wrong so it can all be over; the tests, the trying, the meds you swallow without knowing why.

At home, a kitchen cabinet has been cleared for my medication. Where food used to be is now a cupboard full of Julie food: meds, weight-gain wafers, and six-packs of chocolatey Ensure Plus, the canned supplement drink they gave me in the hospital to complement my brimming meals.

Mom says I may be allergic to regular food, but I can drink as much Ensure Plus as I want. One little can is like eating an entire three-course meal. There's no difference, she says, absolutely none.

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