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QUIETING THE CLOCK: PART TWO: MEMOIR OF A GIRL FACING DEATH AND CHASING FREEDOM
PART TWO OF QUIETING THE CLOCK
Stephanie Romer is one of the oldest people in the world born and still living with half of her heart, called Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome - a form of Complex Congenital Heart Disease. Her memoir walks you through the first fourteen years of her life, filled with constant debilitating fear of not only doctors, but also Clip, an older neighborhood boy with sinister motives. Through her most sacred form of communication, writing, she invites you into her journey of survival.
She draws parallels between being traumatized by doctors and "the hospital life" to being easy prey of grooming and sexual abuse by predators. She hides behind masks while blindly navigating through a life of medical trauma, abuse, debilitating anxiety, depression, and black-out rage. The abuse and control directed her every decision.
The shadow of death from the ticking time-bomb in her chest haunts her every step of the way. After years of being given an expiration date, the girl became determined to take her life into her own hands. Facing everyday as if it's her last, she chases freedom by numbing her pain and seeking love and a sense of family from her closest friends.
Stephanie Romer is one of the oldest people in the world born and still living with half of her heart, called Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome - a form of Complex Congenital Heart Disease. Her memoir walks you through the first fourteen years of her life, filled with constant debilitating fear of not only doctors, but also Clip, an older neighborhood boy with sinister motives. Through her most sacred form of communication, writing, she invites you into her journey of survival.
She draws parallels between being traumatized by doctors and "the hospital life" to being easy prey of grooming and sexual abuse by predators. She hides behind masks while blindly navigating through a life of medical trauma, abuse, debilitating anxiety, depression, and black-out rage. The abuse and control directed her every decision.
The shadow of death from the ticking time-bomb in her chest haunts her every step of the way. After years of being given an expiration date, the girl became determined to take her life into her own hands. Facing everyday as if it's her last, she chases freedom by numbing her pain and seeking love and a sense of family from her closest friends.
223 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 18, 2021
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