The Orphanage by Richard Bergeron

Author:Richard Bergeron
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Autobiography
ISBN: 9781926824659
Publisher: Baraka Books

It was only when Maman woke up that we were able to gauge the true horror of the situation.

The right side of her body was paralyzed. Hemiplegia, they call it. The left side of her brain had also been unplugged, to put it simply.

For the rest of her life, she would have the mental age of a child of five, the doctors said. She would never speak or walk again, they said. She would have to spend the rest of her days in an institution. Which she did.

But she did learn to speak and walk again— in every which way, mind you. But it was always something to laugh about. And a five-year-old laughs a lot.

Maman was a happy child for the rest of her life. A happy child who laughed a lot and made others laugh too.

Even today, at eighty years young, the twelfth floor of the Angelica Residence in Montréal-Nord delights in her constant good humour.

My father’s world fell apart.

Barely twenty-six, he suddenly found himself without a wife and with five young children to look after. Offers flooded in from both sides of the family to take care of such and such a child and raise them as their own.

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