ABSTRACT
I realize now more than I did at the time that I was alert to issues of trauma because of stressor events I experienced early in my own life. Some of these experiences included being sent off, as a 5-year-old child, to live at a school away from home; having a hemorrhage after a tonsillectomy; being in close proximity to a dog as he attacked and seriously injured another child; and being violently attacked by two older boys.
