Stories about the day Rose Lived
Our experiences with Rose on the PICU at Connecticut Children’s Medical Center were by far the most dramatic moments in our lives. As witnesses to these wonderful but scary events we’ll never want to forget what we’ve seen. We’ve all done our best to write down what happened, how we felt, what we’ve learned.


Dad’s story is a pretty detailed narrative of the events around Rose’s first two days in the PICU.


Mom’s story includes her thoughts during some of the key events during those two days and her reflections since then.


Erin’s Story - Erin was 10 at the time and just finishing up 5th grade. She wrote this story for a homework assignment at the beginning of 6th grade.


Katie’s Story - Katie’s over her case of writer’s block.  Katie finished the story the first week of third grade.  She was actually the first one to start writing about Rose.  She started a story in her journal at the beginning of the second grade.  Katie was 6 years old when she started and 7 when she finished it.

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