Laura sends her deepest thank yous to everyone who has volunteered to work on this project and has given me some more details about Little Jack:
He has spikey blond hair and blue eyes.
He likes all sorts of fantasty stuff. He had a Harry Potter birthday party last year.
He's American and has a younger sister who has some severe jealousy issues where he's had to have more attention.
He was very active and sporty and did just about every school team going.
He lives at the base of some steep hills that are on the verge of being classed as mountains according to his dad. He used to play up there a lot.
He loves dogs, but avoid involving snakes as he got a bad bite from one at the time of the accident.
He's very cheeky, does the tongue sticking out between his teeth smile, and was very outgoing around strangers.
He dresses as Superman a lot, and he likes bright colors and always wears jeans.
She sent him a clip of the Doctor telling Martha about Gallifrey, and his dad said he was in awe of it. Maybe one of the artists could do a picture of him in the gardens?
He has spikey blond hair and blue eyes.
He likes all sorts of fantasty stuff. He had a Harry Potter birthday party last year.
He's American and has a younger sister who has some severe jealousy issues where he's had to have more attention.
He was very active and sporty and did just about every school team going.
He lives at the base of some steep hills that are on the verge of being classed as mountains according to his dad. He used to play up there a lot.
He loves dogs, but avoid involving snakes as he got a bad bite from one at the time of the accident.
He's very cheeky, does the tongue sticking out between his teeth smile, and was very outgoing around strangers.
He dresses as Superman a lot, and he likes bright colors and always wears jeans.
She sent him a clip of the Doctor telling Martha about Gallifrey, and his dad said he was in awe of it. Maybe one of the artists could do a picture of him in the gardens?
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liljacks_corner- Little Jack's Corner: G-rated Doctor Who
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This was the case for my fried Reena, who lost her leg up to the hip due to a staph infection. She will never be able to use a prosthetic. There is no way to attach it properly. To say something is bogus just because his or her own personal experience with prosthetics has been positive doesn't mean he or she is correct. It just means he or she is skeptical and doesn't think so. That's all.
No identifying details are given about this child. Not even his real name, this is just what they have asked he be called for the purposes of a story. No money is being made from this and no one is being exploited. Your friend is welcome to his or her cynicism. I prefer optimism and doing something proactive.
I will say that my friend Laura is dead honest. She has never lied to me about anything and is herself in respite care at the moment due to her own situation. She simply asked me to write a story. I don't do kid!fic so I passed it along, with her blessing, in the hopes of finding authors who can. It's as simple and unsinister as that.
A group of people get together to write G rated Doctor Who fic :)
That said, I was wondering about the little sister. See, I don't know diddly about Doctor Who, but maybe I could write a little story for the sister? Depending on how old she is and what she's into. It's terrible to be in the situation Jack is in, but it's also hard to be a sibling in that situation, too.
Also: would this little boy be open to Harry Potter stories?
As for Harry Potter, the concern there is that everything is cured by magic in that universe and of course in this situation, nothing is going to mend this child. For example, having his legs grow back in the story would be detrimetal to the child's mental health, because it could never really happen, but he's at that age where faith in magic still exists, you know? So I'd have to say if you did, you'd want to write one that the child is not actually in. Just a story for him, not one about him.
I think it's wonderful that you can do so much and I hope that one day science will advance enough that it could help someone like this child, too.