Being Sick
Being Sick To talk about my illness, I have to first talk about Nerissa, so please bear with me. Nerissa is my second adopted daughter. I picked her up at Mary and Gerry Burke’s (her foster parents) house on May 20, 1993 to bring her home. Nerissa was 20 months old. She had been born 15 weeks premature and weighed 1 lb 11 oz at birth. Mary and Gerry had taken her home from the hospital at 4 months of age, with a weight of 4 lbs. At 20 months she weighed 18 lbs, not great but a giant compared to Diane, my older daughter, who had weighed 13 lbs when she came from India at 23 mo...