Sickened: The True Story of a Lost Childhood
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Synopsis
A young girl is perched on the cold chrome of yet another doctor's examining table, missing yet another day of school. Just twelve, she's tall, skinny, and weak. It's four o'clock, and she hasn't been allowed to eat anything all day. Her mother, on the other hand, seems curiously excited. She's about to suggest open-heart surgery on her child to 'get to the bottom of this.' She checks her teeth for lipstick and, as the doctor enters, shoots the girl a warning glance. This child will not ruin her plans. From early childhood, Julie Gregory was continually X-rayed, medicated, and operated on-in the vain pursuit of an illness that was created in her mother's mind. Munchausen by Proxy (MBP) is the world's most hidden and dangerous form of child abuse, but Julie Gregory not only survived, she escaped the powerful orbit of her mother's madness and rebuilt her identity as a vibrant, healthy young woman.
A young girl is perched on the cold chrome of yet another doctor's examining table, missing yet another day of school. Just twelve, she's tall, skinny, and weak. It's four o'clock, and she hasn't been allowed to eat anything all day. Her mother, on the other hand, seems curiously excited. She's about to suggest open-heart surgery on her child to 'get to the bottom of this.' She checks her teeth for lipstick and, as the doctor enters, shoots the girl a warning glance. This child will not ruin her plans. From early childhood, Julie Gregory was continually X-rayed, medicated, and operated on-in the vain pursuit of an illness that was created in her mother's mind. Munchausen by Proxy (MBP) is the world's most hidden and dangerous form of child abuse, but Julie Gregory not only survived, she escaped the powerful orbit of her mother's madness and rebuilt her identity as a vibrant, healthy young woman.
Journal Entry 2 by daddyhuggy from Coventry, West Midlands United Kingdom on Sunday, February 12, 2006
Found this in my bag after the Coventry meetup! Not really my sort of thing, so safrolistics must have put it in there!
Don't quite know how this ended up on my bookshelf, but I won't get round to reading it!
Journal Entry 4 by daddyhuggy at To bookcrosser in Coventry, West Midlands United Kingdom on Sunday, April 2, 2006
Released 18 yrs ago (4/2/2006 UTC) at To bookcrosser in Coventry, West Midlands United Kingdom
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Journal Entry 5 by Safrolistics from Newbiggin-By-The-Sea, Northumberland United Kingdom on Sunday, April 2, 2006
I thought I'd picked this up from a Coventry meetup, now I find it was on daddyhuggy's bookshelf all along!
Journal Entry 6 by Safrolistics from Newbiggin-By-The-Sea, Northumberland United Kingdom on Thursday, April 20, 2006
Interesting subject matter, and amazing how the abuse was passed on down the generations.
Journal Entry 7 by Safrolistics from Newbiggin-By-The-Sea, Northumberland United Kingdom on Wednesday, October 11, 2006
This is now going into someone's NSSHS parcel
Released 17 yrs ago (10/11/2006 UTC) at
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Journal Entry 9 by GlitterLover from Leyland, Lancashire United Kingdom on Sunday, December 10, 2006
Thanks for this one Safrolistics..
It is a sad story really adn once I got over it being badly written i found it tough going. I have been involved with people who have Munchausens itself and by proxy and it is a very tragic thing. Very complex and very difficult to see happen.
i will release somewhere soon...
It is a sad story really adn once I got over it being badly written i found it tough going. I have been involved with people who have Munchausens itself and by proxy and it is a very tragic thing. Very complex and very difficult to see happen.
i will release somewhere soon...
Journal Entry 10 by GlitterLover from Leyland, Lancashire United Kingdom on Sunday, December 17, 2006
I found it on a wish list and so in a spate of general RABCK-a-rama it is off on some travels.
Thanks very much for sending me this book, GlitterLover. It was very exciting to come home this evening and see the package waiting inside the door - my first BC package here in the UK.
I'll get on to reading it as soon as I can.
I'll get on to reading it as soon as I can.
Like GlitterLover, I wasn't much of a fan of Julie Gregory's style of story-telling. But what a powerful subject matter! There are points where I almost didn't want to read on, because I was so frightened for Julie and the other children her mother 'cared' for.
I have offered this one on BookRelay, so hopefully it'll be heading off to a new home soon.
Update (31/12/06): This will be sent to Fluffy-Owl, who accepted it on the UK bookrelay, as soon as I can get to a post office.
I have offered this one on BookRelay, so hopefully it'll be heading off to a new home soon.
Update (31/12/06): This will be sent to Fluffy-Owl, who accepted it on the UK bookrelay, as soon as I can get to a post office.
Journal Entry 13 by Fluffy-Owl from Chichester, West Sussex United Kingdom on Friday, January 5, 2007
Received in the post today, thank you for the included packet of chocolate buttons!
Journal Entry 14 by Fluffy-Owl at Caffe Nero, King's Parade OBCZ in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire United Kingdom on Thursday, April 19, 2007
Released 17 yrs ago (4/20/2007 UTC) at Caffe Nero, King's Parade OBCZ in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire United Kingdom
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On the usual shelf.
On the usual shelf.
Journal Entry 15 by Fluffy-Owl from Chichester, West Sussex United Kingdom on Thursday, April 19, 2007
Whilst I have every sympathy for what the family in this book went through, and I will never understand what that was like, I agree with what people have already journalled in that I thought it was awfully written, and I admit to only flicking through it. Think I paid more attention to the enclosed medical documents! I wish Julie a much happier adulthood.
Will be released soon.
Will be released soon.
Journal Entry 16 by Fluffy-Owl from Chichester, West Sussex United Kingdom on Friday, April 20, 2007
Grrr, completely forgot to take this book with me when I went into town this morning. So will take it back to uni with me and release it there. Sorry!
Journal Entry 17 by Fluffy-Owl at OBCZ - Durham Cathedral - closed 2009 in Durham, County Durham United Kingdom on Sunday, April 22, 2007
Released 17 yrs ago (4/23/2007 UTC) at OBCZ - Durham Cathedral - closed 2009 in Durham, County Durham United Kingdom
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I am definitely, this time, going to leave it on the usual shelf!
I am definitely, this time, going to leave it on the usual shelf!
Aha, Fluffy-Owl, we meet again! Picked this up from the shelf in the Cathedral - I needed something to distract me from Japanese verbs. Revision - what's that?
I didn't actually think that this was as badly written as some people thought - ok, it's not going to win any prizes for literature, but it kept me entertained for a day or two. Of course, its interest lies in the subject matter - deeply sad, deeply shocking. Still, I do wonder if the appeal of this kind of book is not a little voyeuristic and in slightly poor taste...
Journal Entry 20 by annalux at Controlled Release in -- Controlled Release, -- By post or by hand/ in person -- United Kingdom on Wednesday, May 2, 2007
Released 17 yrs ago (4/1/2007 UTC) at Controlled Release in -- Controlled Release, -- By post or by hand/ in person -- United Kingdom
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Am posting this to a friend down in Oxford!
Am posting this to a friend down in Oxford!
Will read this ASAP then prep it for release!
