Regarding the controversy (or truth search), however, some of it seems to be misdirected or poorly focused. Whether this is deliberate falsification or "False Memory" or simply a rehashing of incorrect information given to the author has not been established. There is a bit of controversy surrounding this book - The mother denies the allegations of abuse as listed in the book (as anyone most likely accused would, whether the allegations are true or false), and some items such as family background have reportedly been proven false. Some things in it struck me as odd as I was reading it, and in between sections, I began checking online to see if there was anymore to certain ideas in it. Admittedly, I was unable to put it down, and read the whole the night I bought it. The book is a bit hard to digest in many ways. But this is also a story of hope, of courageous understanding and deep compassion and the preservation of a woman's soul.
Isolated in their double-wide trailer, her bizarre pastel-clad, church-going, gun-waving, child-abusing family is worthy of the fiction of Stephen King.
Punctuated with Julie's genuine medical records, Sickened evokes the parallel universe she inhabited in prose of scathing beauty and dark humor. Her goal: open heart surgery for Julie to "get to the bottom of this." Many victims of Munchausen by proxy die, 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. Her mother a former carnival cowgirl invented or caused symptoms, starved her, and shuffled her from doctor to doctor, reveling in hospital visits and the attention of medical professionals. This child will not ruin her plans.Īs a child, 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. 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. Her mother, on the other hand, seems curiously excited.
Its four oclock, and she hasnt been allowed to eat anything all day. Just twelve, shes tall, skinny, and weak.
A young girl is perched on the cold chrome of yet another doctors examining table, missing yet another day of school.
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