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 andprocedures that patients and parents often do not understand, the guilt parents will oftenexperience, whether the burn was a result of an accident within their purview/fault or from thesheer helplessness they can feel relinquishing their child to the medical system they do not fullyunderstand. Elizabeth’s added experience as a physical therapist, frequently treating the very burnpatients she once was, makes the book even more special, as she reflects on her experiences asboth a burn patient and provider from both perspectives. She reflects on the raw emotionsdealing with her own burn patients, the trauma of her past experiences and frustrations withmedical team members