Donnie's Hospital Adventures is the medical memoir of a four-year-old boy who gets TB of the left hip around 1950 in Chicago. Placed in Children's Memorial Hospital for years in the 1950s, the author has written a hospital memoir about a child who learns to overcome adversity with perseverance and fun. This hospital story recalls a kid's humorous adventures that have the nurses hopping just to keep up. In the end, he comes to love Children's Memorial: his friends, the nurses, doctors, teachers, and many others. This memoir could have been named: Tom Sawyer goes to the hospital. It's a hymn to Children's great medical engineering, and a tale of a boy's clear-eyed handling of a major life-problem with courage and humor.
Language
English
Pages
123
Format
Kindle Edition
Donnie's Hospital Adventures: A Boy's Medical Memoir
Donnie's Hospital Adventures is the medical memoir of a four-year-old boy who gets TB of the left hip around 1950 in Chicago. Placed in Children's Memorial Hospital for years in the 1950s, the author has written a hospital memoir about a child who learns to overcome adversity with perseverance and fun. This hospital story recalls a kid's humorous adventures that have the nurses hopping just to keep up. In the end, he comes to love Children's Memorial: his friends, the nurses, doctors, teachers, and many others. This memoir could have been named: Tom Sawyer goes to the hospital. It's a hymn to Children's great medical engineering, and a tale of a boy's clear-eyed handling of a major life-problem with courage and humor.