A Deadly Rash
This is an audiobook of Chapter Eleven
While gardening Destiny's stomach suddenly becomes extremely itchy, then in front of her eyes appears a growing red bumpy rash on her arms. When her horticulture teacher sends her to the nurse, the nurse insists it's heat rash. The nurse continues to insist it's heat rash even when the rash spreads to cover her entire body including the bottoms of her feet and under her clothes. The rash is just as bad in the air conditioned school and house as it is outside. Because the charge nurse makes the verdict that it's a heat rash everyone else has to go along with her diagnosis. It doesn't matter if it makes no sense. Not even when Destiny develops hot and cold flashes, dizziness, loss of balance, extreme fatigue and nausea.
The other kids know there's something seriously wrong with her, but no one listens to mentally ill kids. A few select staff can tell she's not getting appropriate care, but in the end they don't speak up for her.
Does the rash go away? Or does it just get worse?
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Despite my terminal illness and childhood onset schizoaffective disorder, I have earned a BA in writing from Elms College and published two full length young adult novels designed to validate, inspire and instill hope in the world of chronic physical and mental illness and the entire community that supports us
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