Julie remembers reading about the record titles for the tallest and oldest living people, and never imagined her dog would someday be a Guinness World Records title holder. Born 28 March 2000, the four-pound Toy Fox Terrier is an astonishing 22 years and 59 days old and still showing the world that anything is paw-sible. The entire time I read this book, I was screaming in my head. Giving the riot act to the doctors to the father to the social workers that turned a blind eye. I was just as bewildered and pleading as Julie as, watching the doctors slice her open when nothing was wrong. Gregory's mother has seen the book and read parts of it to Gregory's father over the phone. And what did she think of it? "My mom's not all there," says Gregory. "She talks about getting heart catheterisation herself now without having a memory that she did that to me. The children she now has are on drugs for schizophrenia, asthma and stomach ulcers. My dad hasn't read the book himself, but he is very supportive of my work. He tells me: you have a right to tell what happened to you in childhood; I don't disbelieve you; I'm only sorry I didn't help you sooner."

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As soon as Pebbles wakes up from her doggy doze, she has something to eat and drink before staying up all night. When Taylors, South Carolina, USA residents Bobby and Julie Gregory decided to welcome a puppy into their family, they had no idea that over two decades later, their treasured Pebbles would hold a record title for the oldest dog living. As horrific as that is, there was also physical, verbal, and emotional abuse. Julie was beaten, starved, and subjected to situations no child should ever bear witness to. All because her mother wanted the attention.

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This passage characterizes Julie’s father as loving yet harsh. Dan does not want Julie to be embarrassed and laughed at, however does not know how to deliver the message. He harshly criticizes her body, which cannot help Julie’s self esteem. I found the situation ironic as well. At first, when Dan took Julie into the bedroom, I thought he was going to molest her. Later, once Julie has a new job set up at the hospital, I think that maybe Dan was trying to help Julie get out. At the hospital, Julie was offered counseling and help. Throughout Julie’s story, the character of her father troubles me because he seems to want to help Julie yet is easily manipulated by Sandy. It blazes with truth and anger - a true story of survival and achievement against the odds' -- Sunday Telegraph

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The blurb and marketing for this book really imply that it’s about Munchausen by proxy, don’t they? Well, it mostly isn’t. It’s mostly about what a terrible person Sandy Gregory is, how abusive and how insane, plus an indictment of the author’s (also abusive) father. MBP isn’t mentioned until Gregory takes a community college psych class and concludes that the symptoms match her mother’s. She also diagnoses her father with paranoid schizophrenia; My Father’s Keeper, published a few years after this, has more on that. I am just astounded that someone could manipulate the system and their children as she has and that no one, doctors and hospitals included, although I used to tell my mother and she didn't believe it but she was a hard old biddy at times, even seemed to suspect it. Until I read this book. Then I saw what she'd been up to.

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acute pain; communication; nursing care; observations; pain; pain assessment; pain management; patient behaviour; patient experience; patients. Gregory clearly describes the distorted mentality of the abuser: characteristically for somebody with Munchausen's syndrome by proxy, her mother first gains the care and attention of a doctor, then threatens and tries to control the relationship by blaming professional incompetence for test results that, naturally, show nothing wrong with the child. If you haven't heard of it yet, this book is a first person account of growing up with a seriously mentally ill mother. Marc continues to enjoy good health, to learn, and to share with others what has been working for him. He loves the spotlight that ApoE4.Info places on a gene that plays a key role in the worldwide chronic disease epidemic, and he looks forward to ever increasing research focus on the APOE variants. As Treasurer, Marc manages the organization’s finances and IT infrastructure. As Bobby looked around, he noticed the puppy following him and running alongside her enclosure every time he would walk by.

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As I got older I tried to talk about these things to some of the school counsellors but they didn't really believe me. It wasn't a time in our society when kids were taken seriously for this kind of stuff. At last, I’ll just take one medication that will fix everything. I’ll have friends, be in sports, go to movies. Mom’ll be happy; she won’t have to stay at home or clean up after old men or foster kids. And I’ll be a real kid and not miss school anymore,” (98).Throughout the years, Pebbles has once again found joy in her life by indulging in some of her most cherished pastimes. I didn't have any friends growing up. We didn't really have any surrounding family or neighbours. It was just this wild and woolly lush part of the country and I walked around barefoot with my animals. My family consisted of my mum, my dad, and my little brother Danny, who was about seven years younger than I was, and we lived on a dead-end dirt road in a double-wide trailer.