Tuesday, May 06, 2003

Once Bitten, Twice Shy No More

I read about this girl in the Sunday Times this week. When I was reading about her condition, I couldn't believe she was still alive, and wondered how she would ever live a normal life. She was on a ventilator, with her eyes sewn shut because her eyelids had been burned off. Her hands were so badly burned that, had she lived, she would have had to use prosthetics. Her hair would never grow back. I found it very sad, mostly because her father had quit his job and her mother had cut back on her hours so that they could be by her side every day. Her mother thought that God had spared her for some reason, because she not only survived the fire, but also a fungal infection that threatened her life last month. Now she's gone, and what does the mother think now?

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