Dear aalii:

You have done so very well to raise your two children without abusing or neglecting them and to put yourself through nursing school, very impressive for anyone, but especially for a person who suffered as much as you have suffered.

You shared that you were born to two teenage parents who didn’t provide adequate food and clothing for you and your sibling and who abused you physically and emotionally, your father causing you a permanent shoulder injury; that you were sexually abused by an uncle for two years (9-11), that you were thrown out at 15 by your alcoholic mother, lived with a pedophile boyfriend who impregnated you and physically abused you, left him, met another man, had two planned children with him, but he left you when the two were infants.

Unfortunately, after graduating from nursing school, you were injured at work and was diagnosed with a serious of physical ailments, and you suffer from depression and PTSD symptoms.

I wish you didn’t suffer as a child, as a teenager, as a young woman, and more recently, this setback beginning with your injury at the workplace.

I wonder if you took advantage of any and all the help you can get as an injured employee and a person suffering from all the diagnosed ailments that you listed?

anita