Eloise: Letters to a Lost Child
Eloise: Letters to a Lost Child
Insomniac Press | March 2002 | ISBN-10: 1894663233 | 168 pages | PDF | 2.8 MB
Insomniac Press | March 2002 | ISBN-10: 1894663233 | 168 pages | PDF | 2.8 MB
On 7 May 1978 a drunk driver ran down a mother and her two children. Eloise Lavallee's life was changed forever. She and her four-year-old son were not badly hurt, but her seven-month-old daughter was severely injured. Both of Eloise's legs were broken, her back was broken and a vertebra in her neck was crushed. Two months after the accident, during another long and painful surgery, oxygen was cut off to Eloise's brain and she suffered severe brain damage. Eloise would never walk, talk or see again. For the next twelve years Eloise needed constant medical attention, numerous corrective surgeries and help in every aspect of daily life. A day before she was to turn thirteen years old she died quietly at home, in her mother's arms, finally succumbing to her injuries. A brief, sweet and terrible life ended.