Saturday, October 27, 2018

MEET AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR

HEIDI JOHNSON-WRIGHT (part 3)


by David-Elijah Nahmod


Johnson-Wright noted that when she was a child — in the worst throes of her disease — kids were not treated as full-fledged humans.

 “The pain of kids was not taken as seriously as that of adult patients,” she said.

 “It seems incredible now when I think about it, but all the years that I received treatment at what was considered a cutting edge pediatric rheumatology clinic, no one ever asked me how I was managing the pain.”

http://olebbooks.com/firsts-coming-of-age-stories-by-people-with-disabilities/

No comments:

Post a Comment