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100 1  Gregory, Julie,|d1969- 
245 10 Sickened :|bthe true story of a lost childhood /|cJulie 
       Gregory ; foreword by Marc D. Feldman. 
250    Bantam trade pbk. ed. 
264  1 New York, N.Y. :|bBantam Books,|c2004. 
264  4 |c©2003 
300    ix, 244 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :
       |billustrations, portraits ;|c21 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
520    A young girl is perched on the cold chrome of yet another 
       doctors examining table, missing yet another day of 
       school. Just twelve, she is 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. 
       Sickened from early childhood, the author 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, in which the caretaker, 
       almost always the mother, invents or induces symptoms in 
       her child because she craves the attention of medical 
       professionals. Many MBP children die, but she not only 
       survived, she escaped the powerful orbit of her mother's 
       madness and rebuilt her identity as a vibrant, healthy 
       young woman. This is a remarkable memoir that speaks in an
       original and distinctive Midwestern voice, rising to 
       indelible scenes in prose of scathing beauty and fierce 
       humor. Punctuated with her actual medical records, it 
       recreates the bizarre cocoon of her family's isolated 
       double-wide trailer, their wild shopping sprees and gun-
       waving confrontations, the astonishing naivete of medical 
       professionals and social workers. It also exposes the 
       twisted bonds of terror and love that roped Julie's family
       together, including the love that made a child willing to 
       sacrifice herself to win her mother's happiness. The 
       realization that the sickness lay in her mother, not in 
       herself, would not come to Julie until adulthood. But when
       it did, it would strike like lightning. Through her 
       painful metamorphosis, she discovered the courage to save 
       her own life and, ultimately, the life of the girl her 
       mother had found to replace her. This story takes us to 
       new places in the human heart and spirit. It is an 
       unforgettable story, unforgettably told. 
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650  0 Munchausen syndrome by proxy|xPatients|vBiography. 
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