Chapter 1
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The doctor came in, flipped the switch on the light board and slipped the film under the clip, I leaned in next to Troy who took my hand with his wrapping his fingers and squeezing it in comfort.
The doctor used his pen to point to a large dark shadow beneath the white outline of Sofia's ribs
"There is it"
Now everything was falling in to place, four weeks ago, on our annual vacation to Orlando , we had to take Sofia to the emergency room, she had been complaining it had hurt to lay down, she ran a slight fever at night. The doctor said she had the flu and sent us away with a packet of Children's Tylenol. Two days later when she was not getting better, we took her to another hospital, the doctor there ordered an x ray to rule out pneumonia, when he tried to examine Sofia's abdomen she screamed saying it hurt too much to lie down.
"There's nothing wrong with her, she's just manipulating you, the doctor told us "she's just a typical two year old who doesn't want to go to sleep"
" How can we be sure it's something more serious" Troy asked somewhat distracted, Sofia and Sara, Sofia's older sister bored with waiting, had stepped outside the room and were now chasing each other in the hall,
The doctor sniffed disapproval at the commotion "Well look at her" the doctor said"She has too much energy to be sick, A sick child would be listless and lethargic, would run a fever all day and not at night. If you want to an make apportionment with your doctor when you get home, but as far as I can see, she's fine."
I felt confused and embarrassed by the doctor's word. Every bone in my body was telling me something wrong, and yet maybe the doctor was right, maybe I was just an inadequate of an overindulged child Escorting our two unruly children past the other sick children felt guilty for having wasted the doctor's valuable time.
Now looking at the X-ray, then looking at Troy we both felt the same: that we had failed Why hadn't we trusted ourselves more? The doctors knew the symptoms of illness, Me and Troy knew Sofia. We should had insisted that the doctor's explanation of Sofia's behaviour didn't match what we knew to be true for her. Sofia had no interest in playing games to get what she wanted: she would asked for it directly, Even with Sofia's unusual symptoms surely there were signs of something more than manipulative behaviour!
As the doctor peeled the film from the light board, Me and Troy knew one thing: that we were going to start speaking up before it was too late for Sofia
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Until next Time
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HARIBO X
Ps Many of you were wondering what happened to my other story-
I deleted it by accident! The computer crash as I was sorting out and some reason is not letting me add it again
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