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Alice Elliott Dark's avatar

This is such a beautiful essay, I hope it turns up in a book. I am glad you are getting better.

It's very frustrating to not have illness register on tests but it must be widespread. I'm glad you ran into a PA who was sensible.

It's strange about children and illness, it can feel so terrifying to have a sick child. I'm glad a long history of that became a clear message now.

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Dawne Kovan's avatar

Good to hear you're on the mend, Elissa. Thank you for this piece. Just to say that I had a mother like that to - she had found her father collapsed with a fatal heart attack, when she was 15, and her mother (my grandmother ) told her it was nothing, and sent her out of the room, whereupon he died. When I was struck by pneumonia at age 6, she grabbed me from the bed and ran screaming to the hospital, then left me there for 3 weeks without coming to visit me once. She must have been terrified that I, too, might die. And I thought she was dead! I guess that was the point when I determined never to get sick again - and I have pretty much kept to it. And we'll see, time will tell......

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