October 25, 2012

I watched a BYU-student-made documentary, "I Am Not My Body", about an orphaned Romanian 9-year-old who was burned--third and fourth degree burns over 75% of his little body, losing all fingers, eyelids, and his nose--and his story of coming to America for medical care and reconstructive surgeries and he said something I'll never forget: when he first arrived in the U.S., the doctors told his new family he should take some time to play and be a little boy before they started surgerizing and so they went to parks and zoos and water parks and when the mom asked him, "Are you happy" he said, "How could I be anything but?"