Sickened - Julie Gregory

Sickened - Julie Gregory: Don't ever vote for MBP (1534 words)
by theediscerning - written on 20.08.04 (Very useful, 166 readings)
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Julie?s father Dan is, to use a slangy parlance, a bit bonkers. He calls her Sissy, for one, but that?s not the worst of it. He prefers to live his life lying on the sofa, watching wall to wall M*A*S*H, with a ?lung full of Agent Orange? he brought back from Vietnam, and hawking into his hand and slinging it at the wall if no-one?s around to wait on him with tissues. He is certified as having sanity problems, which got him invalided out of ?Nam. But he?s not the problem relative Julie has to report on in this autobiography. Nor is it her maternal grandma, who would take Julie fishing, stopping off on the way home to point Jesus Himself wandering the ...

One Sick Puppy (1048 words)
by kirstymack80 - written on 18.08.04 (Very useful, 262 readings)
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Julie Gregory is no ordinary little girl. She always seems to be ill but years of trips to doctors' surgeries and hospital tests bring her family no closer to what?s wrong with her. Mom looks after her. She tells Julie what to say to the doctors ('Show how sick you are') and if Julie doesn?t do as she?s told, she gets a little slap here, a big twist of her hair there. Dad?s a slob, he comes home from work and doesn?t move from the tv for the rest of the evening, getting Julie to run and bring him snacks and drinks while he flicks the remote ?til he finds his favourite re-run of M*A*S*H. Oh, ...

Sickened - Julie Gregory: Mother....Make....Sick (1180 words)
by helencb - written on 23.11.04 (Very useful, 246 readings)
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“Sickened” is author Julie Gregory’s memoires of a childhood of abuse at the hands of a Mother Sandy who clearly has emotional difficulties of her own. Sandy abuses Julie by seeking attention form the medical profession and making the child in and go through painful operations (Munchausen’s by Proxy). It has to be said that Sandy did not have the best start in life at all. She was married off at age 17 to a man named Smokey who was in his fifties. Prior to this she had suffered sexual abuse, had a mother who starved her, a family who all slept with one another, and came home one day to find one of the many ‘dad’s at home having blown his brains out. She is ...