At least it is not her head.
At least it is not her heart!
At least it is not her brain.
You, reader, might agree with these sentiments but I do
not. People whose children are
whole and without problems say these things. Parents of children who are injured don’t talk like
this. They don’t examine your
pain, your loss, your feelings about your child’s injury, and weigh that
against some greater imagined injury.
It means nothing to look on the Brightside when directed by others. Surely, we all know that in some ways
we are lucky not to have a child with a greater injury but given the mechanism
of injury, we were truly only lucky that she did not also have brain
damage.
So it ended up that her brain was not damaged but I would
ask you, reader, to do a few things for me. Reach your hand out in front of you—shoulder level. Now out to the side. Put your hand behind your back or over
your head. Brush your hair. Put your glasses on or your make up. These things she cannot do.
