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HOW IT FEELS
(Lexie)
When we have to go to therapy another time, Jesse cries.
“Honey, it will get easier every time, I promise…” Dad says. Mom is at work. I think part of it is that he misses Mom a lot. Dad is home with us all the time. For a while Mom could stay, but now she has to go back to work.
“You don’t know…” Jesse cries. “You don’t know how it feels…”
Since Nurse Evan is on days this time, he comes in, and reads Jesse some Harry Potter until he calms down enough to go to therapy. He does the voices and everything. It’s funny (but not too funny so our legs don’t shake.)
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| [Image: A pile of books, including Harry Potter] |
“You listen to your coach in baseball, right?” Evan says. “Because he knows more than you about that.”
“My dad’s my coach,” Jesse says sadly.
“Well, here at the hospital, the physical therapists are like your coaches. They might tell you to do things that don’t make sense to do because they hurt, but they know that in the long run they’ll make you stronger, okay?”
“But nobody knows how it feels to be us,” Jesse says quietly. “Nobody grown up knows how hard it is.”
Nurse Evan is quiet now. There isn’t anything he can say to that.
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Questions for Discussion:
Nurse Evan helps Jesse calm down by reading him Harry Potter. Do TV, movies or books help you calm down the most?
Have you ever felt like Jesse? Like nobody grown up knows how it feels to be you?
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