| View Larger Image | Grandma's Baby: A True Story of One Family's Struggle with Shaken Baby Syndrome and what they call Shaken Family Syndrome | Paperbackby R.N. Karen Wise (Author)
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| | Binding: | Paperback | | Publisher: | Trafford Publishing | | Page Count: | 164 Pages | | Publication Date: | February 21, 2003 | | Sales Rank: | 2,288,393nd |
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Unfortunately in the United States today children are being sacrificed to short tempers, materialism, tight schedules, impatience, and selfishness in the form of Shaken Baby Syndrome. Even after having been a nurse for fourteen years and working trauma for about the last two, I did not know much about S.B.S. Unfortunately, I was all too familiar with abuse. My children were five and seven when I began my career at Children's Hospital. Abuse cases are a reality of the job. As fate would have it I was not directly involved with a large number of them. Wrapped in a cloak of fantasy I raised my children in suburban "yuppieville" unmarred by violence or abuse. Fantasy collided with reality on June 19, 1998 when, while caring for my firstborn grandchild, my daughter's boyfriend beat and shook her to her physical limit and she fell to the floor unconscious and seizing. Gone forever were the innocence and ignorance of my years of being a mother. The trauma was brought to the E.R. at Children's and ironically I was working that evening. From that gray Friday evening and spanning the course of our summer into fall, our lives as a family were forever changed. The personal changes have proven irreversible. A fire burns incessantly in a place so deep inside me that previous to the events of that evening I didn't even know it existed. Someone has to protect our innocent angels whose only infraction was being born in a mixed up volatile world where people refuse to take responsibility for their actions and lawmakers and court systems seem to protect the guilty. It is my goal to spend the rest of my days working toward that end. Shortly after my granddaughter's abuse I began writing my thoughts down in an effort to keep from exploding. It was imperative that I educate myself on the facts and fallacies surrounding Shaken Baby Syndrome, deal with the legal system directly and vicariously through my daughter, and maintain my "cool" (not the easiest of tasks being an ADHD myself). In the course of this purging process I realized the pages were starting to fit together and "make sense". A book was forming through me and I began to feel a sense of responsibility and humility. Over the last four years I have put these thoughts in order and saved them to create my book called, "Grandma's Baby". Between the covers of "Grandma's Baby" you will discover an ordinary family who, while dealing with a horrendous act of violence, came together and dealt with anything that was thrown in our path. From the night of the trauma, through the social service system, complete with JR-6 and foster care, to Alexis's return to her mother's arms, I have chronicled our families emotional journey of 1998 through the only eyes I know, mine. Alexis, who at five years old has had a miraculous recovery, stood at my side last week and watched as I worked on some final handwritten editing. Unusually quiet, I turned to look at her and found her tiny hands cupped over the manuscript as she blew an imaginary substance in its direction. Asked what she was doing she replied, "It's magic dust grandma. I am blessing your book ." As tears rolled down my cheeks she put her hands over mine. Totally unsolicited she put her blessing on a book, the content of which she has not yet been made aware, and sadly may someday be the most difficult book she ever reads. At a time when Shaken Baby Syndrome is on the rise and we as a nation have been shaken to our very foundation, I humbly share our story. It is my hope that we will rise to meet the challenges of child abuse with education, awareness, and love and learn that protecting one another begins first in our hearts and in our homes. |
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Great Help! by Heather (PA)  4 Stars
August 27, 2006
I bought this book after finding out the I was going to be getting a child in my preschool class who had been shaken as a baby. I was not familiar with Shaken Baby Syndrome at all, but this book gave a great insight through the eyes of a family going through it. I would recommend it to any teacher who may be dealing with the same thing
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