Jamie Parker
“When they started cleaning out my wounds,
that’s when I started feeling the pain, because people had to keep me calm and keep me breathing,”
she said.
Jamie spent a night in intensive care and was
later moved to the hospital’s burn unit, but still
wasn’t able to fully grasp what had happened to
her - or the multiple surgeries and months of therapy that were to follow.
“Anytime they changed my dressings, I would
ask them to put a washcloth over my face so that
I wouldn’t accidentally look at my legs. I knew if I
did, I probably would have different thoughts while
in the hospital, and I wouldn’t have been as accepting of what happened. I told myself, ‘I’ll see
them in my own time - I don’t need to see them
now.’”
She had to face facts once she entered rehab,
and it became clear that she would be the one responsible for х