Hello, My name is Jojo and I will be your nurse today!

David didn't have an easy childhood. He used drawings to express the way he felt. His childhood was rough.  He didn’t have anybody to lean on or anything when he needed help. Drawing was his only escape.

                When I was a child, I was already sure that I wanted to be a nurse. My parents were able to bless me with all the proper toys that made me feel like I was a nurse.  This started around the age of 5.  When I was 5 years old my sister was 3, she made the perfect candidate to play the sick patient. My parents where always busy planning for my new baby brother’s homecoming. My sister was really one of the only one that was there to play with me. I would always watch the medical shows, especially anything that had to do with the ER. According to my mother, I would watch back to back episodes of the same medical shows, and then I would go off and wake up my little sister just so I could play with her.  My 3 year old sister was very helpful and almost always complied. I as a child always wanted to be the leader. I hated being told what to do. So when my sister was beginning to get older, she too wanted to be nurse, and refused to be the patient anymore. We would argue and fight and pull each other’s hair till I got it my way. When I would play nurse I felt like I was superior to my sister and I got to tell her what was wrong and I would always cure her.

 Dance queen

Another way that I expressed myself as a child was through dancing. I was a handful as a child and I always liked to be active. As a child, I never really watched televise on unless it had to do with medical stuff, and very little cartoons.  Growing up I had a lot of cousins, some were around my age. My cousins would always come over and we would have dance battles. Once again I thought I was the queen of dancing and I always thought I beat them. Dancing was a way that I expressed some fury that I had due to my parents not giving me all the attention I wanted. My brothers and I are close to age so we had to share attention, I wanted it all to myself. So when I danced in front of them it made me feel better. They would say how great I was and to teach them some moves. Of course now that I am older, I wonder if I really did dance great!