10.01.08
Sent Home To Die
One night Dunn resident Phyllis Massey had a strange dream. All of her children were grown with lives of their own, but she dreamed of another child, a beautiful girl who was very tiny, and very ill.
- Alyssa shows off the tiny scar left by the tracheotomy she no longer needs. ‘See this,’ she said. ‘I’m healed.’One night Dunn resident Phyllis Massey had a strange dream. All of her children were grown with lives of their own, but she dreamed of another child, a beautiful girl who was very tiny, and very ill.
“I saw this baby struggling to breathe with at least seven machines surrounding her,” she said. “I didn’t know what it meant, but in my dream my heart went out to her and she was mine.”
Months later Mrs. Massey found out what the dream meant.
“I had signed up to be a foster parent – see if I could help someone,” she said. “The social worker called and asked if I could pick up a child from Chapel Hill hospital. They didn’t tell me anything so I didn’t know what to expect.” Read the rest of this entry »
