May 8th, just another little holiday for elementary school children to make small, thoughtful gifts for the adults in their lives. Everyone in Mrs. Nelko 's 2nd grade class was working on red construction paper cards with bright pink hearts that have been haphazardly cut out.
The assignment for the children was to take the cards home and give them to their mother 's on Sunday to recognize the work their Mother 's do for their children. All of the children participated, or at least attempted to, this event. For the most part, this naive gesture was very well received, but there was one unexpected outcome for a child.
This child was mostly like every other child- picked up at school by Dad, wanted to play games once they got home, and overall …show more content…
She promised herself that she would never be the angry, somewhat abusive person her mother became as the disease she had slowly engulfed her being. She was largely successful, for a time, anyhow.
She grew up, married a lovely man, and a had perfect child. Truly, it was as if it were some type of fairy tale. Things were mostly uneventful, although the mother seemed to be becoming adept at accidentally hurting herself. Maybe it was just tripping while she was walking, or perhaps she dropped the groceries she was carrying on her foot. It was all relatively minor.
Thoughts began brewing in her head, however. She vaguely remembers her mother before she was sick. She was very clutzy, although well meaning. A trip and fall here, a broken glass there. The thought of this parallelism made her so sick she needed to just go lay down for the night.
Acknowledging that this discovery might be significant, she tried to just be extra vigilant to what she was doing, to look for patterns. After dinner that night, yet another incident occurred. When washing the dishes, she shattered a glass, just like how her mother had done previously. This brought her to the point where she was physically sick, retching at the thought of …show more content…
In a state of delirium, she imagined herself as many different people in different settings. When she was not as cloudy, she enjoyed writing. Her penmanship was quickly deteriorating and soon even she could not read her own handwriting.
Realizing that the darker end of events was coming, she attempted to shut herself off from the family as much little to no conversation was had. Not seeing her family was figuratively killing her, but she knew it was what was best for them. She couldn’t let them see her the way she saw her mother.
One day, the mother felt that she soon would not be able to end it as she wished if she waited any longer. After the husband and child left, she worked to do chores in the house. Many of the activities took a long time and were very frustrating, but she stuck with the tasks she had set out for herself. Ultimately, when the day was done, she knew she needed sleep. Figuring she would finish it tomorrow, she poured herself some of the tonic and tried to sleep. Her plans for killing herself arrived early, however. She poured too large of a dose for herself, and entered a sleep from which she would never wake
The assignment for the children was to take the cards home and give them to their mother 's on Sunday to recognize the work their Mother 's do for their children. All of the children participated, or at least attempted to, this event. For the most part, this naive gesture was very well received, but there was one unexpected outcome for a child.
This child was mostly like every other child- picked up at school by Dad, wanted to play games once they got home, and overall …show more content…
She promised herself that she would never be the angry, somewhat abusive person her mother became as the disease she had slowly engulfed her being. She was largely successful, for a time, anyhow.
She grew up, married a lovely man, and a had perfect child. Truly, it was as if it were some type of fairy tale. Things were mostly uneventful, although the mother seemed to be becoming adept at accidentally hurting herself. Maybe it was just tripping while she was walking, or perhaps she dropped the groceries she was carrying on her foot. It was all relatively minor.
Thoughts began brewing in her head, however. She vaguely remembers her mother before she was sick. She was very clutzy, although well meaning. A trip and fall here, a broken glass there. The thought of this parallelism made her so sick she needed to just go lay down for the night.
Acknowledging that this discovery might be significant, she tried to just be extra vigilant to what she was doing, to look for patterns. After dinner that night, yet another incident occurred. When washing the dishes, she shattered a glass, just like how her mother had done previously. This brought her to the point where she was physically sick, retching at the thought of …show more content…
In a state of delirium, she imagined herself as many different people in different settings. When she was not as cloudy, she enjoyed writing. Her penmanship was quickly deteriorating and soon even she could not read her own handwriting.
Realizing that the darker end of events was coming, she attempted to shut herself off from the family as much little to no conversation was had. Not seeing her family was figuratively killing her, but she knew it was what was best for them. She couldn’t let them see her the way she saw her mother.
One day, the mother felt that she soon would not be able to end it as she wished if she waited any longer. After the husband and child left, she worked to do chores in the house. Many of the activities took a long time and were very frustrating, but she stuck with the tasks she had set out for herself. Ultimately, when the day was done, she knew she needed sleep. Figuring she would finish it tomorrow, she poured herself some of the tonic and tried to sleep. Her plans for killing herself arrived early, however. She poured too large of a dose for herself, and entered a sleep from which she would never wake