Textured Skin II

An excellent perspective by Elizabeth Grey of her experience being burned as a young child. She reflects on the experience, the dizzying array of medical terms and procedures that patients and parents often do not understand, the guilt parents will often experience, whether the burn was a result of an accident within their purview/fault or from the sheer helplessness they can feel relinquishing their child to the medical system they do not fully understand. Elizabeth's added experience as a physical therapist, frequently treating the very burn patients she once was, makes the book even more special, as she reflects on her experiences as both a burn patient and provider from both perspectives. She reflects on the raw emotions dealing with her own burn patients, the trauma of her past experiences and frustrations with medical team members