Textured Skin II

An excellent perspective by Elizabeth Grey of her experience being burned as a young child. She reflects on the experience, the dizzying array of medical terms and
procedures that patients and parents often do not understand, the guilt parents will often
experience, whether the burn was a result of an accident within their purview/fault or from the
sheer helplessness they can feel relinquishing their child to the medical system they do not fully
understand. Elizabeth's added experience as a physical therapist, frequently treating the very burn
patients she once was, makes the book even more special, as she reflects on her experiences as
both a burn patient and provider from both perspectives. She reflects on the raw emotions
dealing with her own burn patients, the trauma of her past experiences and frustrations with
medical team members