I was born on February 4th, 2002. My dad has always been by my side. Throughout the years, things changed and I feel like it happened so fast.

​You know how there’s always a good cop and a bad cop in the form of parents? My dad was always the bad cop. He always threatened to throw everything away if it was on the floor. My brother and I used to stand in the corner for several minutes at a time. To my dad, my brother was the golden child. He never got in trouble. I’m a different story. My dad verbally abused my mother and I.

5:30 a.m. on March 3rd, 2020, April and Maggie start heading to the hospital. April’s a 7 year old about to have surgery on her ear. She has to go in because they are going to reconstruct her ear drum. Once there, April starts to feel nervous as they get put into a room. They have been waiting an hour until... 

Cancer? Heart attacks? Seizures? Death? Many things can cause pediatric medical traumatic stress (PMTS) but not everyone has the same symptoms.