p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;" align="left"strong style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"Peter Parker (6 -11 years old)/strong/p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;" align="left"br /Months after Peter had been in the pediatric ICU, May and Ben had become helicopter parents. They wouldn't let Peter go outside by himself and they had worked very hard to buy his medications, making it their priority before any real food. At Peter's elementary school, they wouldn't let him do gymnastics, dance or anything that would even slightly speed up his breathing. May knew it was bullshit, but she was /After months of relative quiet and 2 more birthdays they unfortunately ended up in the emergency room watching Peter being resuscitated. They had been to the ER more than 10 times, but not this hard in the last two years. The neighbor's dog had tried to bite Peter on the way home from school with Ben. br /It had all happened so fast that Ben had managed to throw Peter's backpack in the dog's face, but the dog had chased Peter for about ten blocks until Peter had fallen to the ground unable to breathe and had the animal biting his ankle. May had run down the stairs from the 12th floor to the ER almost flying, not to mention colliding with Dr. Gomez and Dr. Rushtaj in the process damaging the gowns with /She could barely see Ben with blood dripping down his arm and obvious signs that he had been bitten by something in his arm as he ran behind a gurney with what she recognized as her nephew with a cyanotic tone and a lot of blood around him. /p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;" align="left"After a year of paying for a good dermatologist and psychologist, Peter was able to stop shaking and crying every time they went out in the street, however, he did not always go out as he wanted and May noticed that she could not force him to go out in the neighborhood. Peter became a totally withdrawn and nervous child, and if he was already sensitive to everything, it was even more noticeable. He concentrated on his studies, especially in science, and at the age of 10 he had managed to get a scholarship to MidTown Tech High School, one of the most renowned private schools in New York. br /May and Ben were really happy, they couldn't ask for anything less. Their 11 years couldn't have started any better. While it was a great opportunity, they hoped it would not destabilize their current finances to any great extent, but they would do everything they could to help Peter get ahead more and more each day. /p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"strong style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"Dear 2011, be calm./strongbr /Ben had suffered a heart attack. It was so sudden and so extensive that he was declared unfit for work. Actually everything that month had gone perfectly. Ben had gotten a job as a partner in a small construction company, they had stabilized, they were even planning to buy a small but nice house, and if it hadn't been for Peter's suspicion and attention to his uncle, Ben would have died. He simply collapsed while breakfast was being served and Peter promptly called 911 while following everything the operator mentioned. br /After six months in intensive care, coronary care, respiratory care, chronic patient program, cardiology and so on, they had come to the conclusion that Ben's 50 years plus his severe tobacco and alcohol use in his youth did not make him a candidate for transplant. That broke something inside Peter, at any moment his uncle would no longer be with him and there was no way to fix it. Great, Luck Parker strikes again./p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"Peter found that he could earn some money by participating in small sports tournaments at his school and even though he had no friends and everyone looked at him funny because of his second-hand uniform, he would come out ahead. Peter had discovered that if he held his breath long enough while running he could avoid a severe attack most of the time. Obviously he hadn't told May because she would freak out, but every $20 he could collect he would religiously put into a box for Ben's medications and doctor's appointments. br /Participating in these sporting events strengthened him physically and psychologically and allowed him to become more resilient as the months went by. And well, he wasn't spared from his asthma attacks, but he had become one of the best relay athletes in his /Ben would secretly support him and attend his performances, it was good to see him in the stands, it always made him feel valued and that everything he did was for and for those he loved. /p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;" align="left"br /Months after Peter had been in the pediatric ICU, May and Ben had become helicopter parents. They wouldn't let Peter go outside by himself and they had worked very hard to buy his medications, making it their priority before any real food. At Peter's elementary school, they wouldn't let him do gymnastics, dance or anything that would even slightly speed up his breathing. May knew it was bullshit, but she was /After months of relative quiet and 2 more birthdays they unfortunately ended up in the emergency room watching Peter being resuscitated. They had been to the ER more than 10 times, but not this hard in the last two years. The neighbor's dog had tried to bite Peter on the way home from school with Ben. br /It had all happened so fast that Ben had managed to throw Peter's backpack in the dog's face, but the dog had chased Peter for about ten blocks until Peter had fallen to the ground unable to breathe and had the animal biting his ankle. May had run down the stairs from the 12th floor to the ER almost flying, not to mention colliding with Dr. Gomez and Dr. Rushtaj in the process damaging the gowns with /She could barely see Ben with blood dripping down his arm and obvious signs that he had been bitten by something in his arm as he ran behind a gurney with what she recognized as her nephew with a cyanotic tone and a lot of blood around him. /p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;" align="left"After a year of paying for a good dermatologist and psychologist, Peter was able to stop shaking and crying every time they went out in the street, however, he did not always go out as he wanted and May noticed that she could not force him to go out in the neighborhood. Peter became a totally withdrawn and nervous child, and if he was already sensitive to everything, it was even more noticeable. He concentrated on his studies, especially in science, and at the age of 10 he had managed to get a scholarship to MidTown Tech High School, one of the most renowned private schools in New York. br /May and Ben were really happy, they couldn't ask for anything less. Their 11 years couldn't have started any better. While it was a great opportunity, they hoped it would not destabilize their current finances to any great extent, but they would do everything they could to help Peter get ahead more and more each day. /p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;" align="left"br /Ben had managed to have a higher income and was close to retirement, otherwise May had returned to intermittent part-time shifts, as they didn't know why, but after a series of anaphylactic shocks Peter had had along with sudden severe seizures, they preferred that he not be home alone for so long. Especially when May and Ben realized that Peter was crying because he had no friends at school, maybe it had all come together at a bad time and affected his asthma. It was a really upsetting situation./p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"strong style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"Dear 2011, be calm./strongbr /Ben had suffered a heart attack. It was so sudden and so extensive that he was declared unfit for work. Actually everything that month had gone perfectly. Ben had gotten a job as a partner in a small construction company, they had stabilized, they were even planning to buy a small but nice house, and if it hadn't been for Peter's suspicion and attention to his uncle, Ben would have died. He simply collapsed while breakfast was being served and Peter promptly called 911 while following everything the operator mentioned. br /After six months in intensive care, coronary care, respiratory care, chronic patient program, cardiology and so on, they had come to the conclusion that Ben's 50 years plus his severe tobacco and alcohol use in his youth did not make him a candidate for transplant. That broke something inside Peter, at any moment his uncle would no longer be with him and there was no way to fix it. Great, Luck Parker strikes again./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"May had taken full 24 hour shifts every day in between and Peter really couldn't be left behind when his real priority went from his meds to his Uncle Ben's meds. He couldn't be selfish in any way, he knew he could very well live, but his uncle had no choice but to stay alive, stable and calm and Peter wanted him to live long, now he couldn't leave them, he couldn't take it. /p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"Peter found that he could earn some money by participating in small sports tournaments at his school and even though he had no friends and everyone looked at him funny because of his second-hand uniform, he would come out ahead. Peter had discovered that if he held his breath long enough while running he could avoid a severe attack most of the time. Obviously he hadn't told May because she would freak out, but every $20 he could collect he would religiously put into a box for Ben's medications and doctor's appointments. br /Participating in these sporting events strengthened him physically and psychologically and allowed him to become more resilient as the months went by. And well, he wasn't spared from his asthma attacks, but he had become one of the best relay athletes in his /Ben would secretly support him and attend his performances, it was good to see him in the stands, it always made him feel valued and that everything he did was for and for those he loved. /p