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media type="custom" key="8734986"Vanessa Rodriquez

How would you feel if you were Peg's parents? 11-2-10

If I were Peg’s mom, I would feel scared. I would feel scared because Peg could die. Not only that but, she has three types of polio! I would probably cry each time I heard that something that something got worse. I would pray every night and hope that she will get better. I wouldn’t want to go to work for a while. I wouldn’t want to talk about it and I would be really depressed. I would hope that Peg would not worry like the way I would. The worst part would be, not being able to comfort her when she is scared to death! I feel really bad for Peg’s parent because of what they had to go through.

· **In Chapter 3 of //Small Steps//, Peg has a problem with a nurse who refuses to turn her, even though she is in pain. **  · **What reasons does Peg have for being angry with the nurse? **  · **Do you think Peg does the right thing by telling her parents about this incident? **

Peg has many good reasons for being mad at the nurse who wouldn’t turn her. The nurse was talking all of the time she could have been helping Peg turn. While she was talking to Peg about what to do next time, she could have flipped her. Not only that, but if you are a nurse or doctor you should be doing your job. By the nurse saying, I just turned you, not ten minutes ago. I’m not turning you again already. You’ll get turned every thirty minutes, the same as every other patient in this ward. That right there is defiantly not your job, telling patients no because you just did what they are asking for and you are too lazy to do it again. If I were peg, I would think what she said is just flat out rude! Peg did the right thing by telling her parents. Again, she was in pain and, she is a patient. The nurse should have just flipped her. If I were her I would have told my parents. When I was little I went to a daycare. I had asked her if I could have the snack my mom packed me because I was really hungry. She told me know because she was watching a movie. I told my mom and I never went back again. I didn’t think it was fair because I was the last one there, not only that, but she was watching a movie. I understand why Peg told her parents!

Comprihention questions

2. Sister kenny learned how to treat polio symotms by rubbing the kids back or shoulders.

6. They accsepteeed her before austraila because, the doctors saw that she hewlped chil,ren all around the world that had polio.

8. miss Ballard compared her to a baby because she didnt have much balence and it was like taking her first steps.

11. Peg had to learn how to walk all over again because walking sticks were new for her and it was not easy as she saw it would be. Also beacuse she had to regain her stregth so she could walk better.

19. The differnt thing about pegs school at the hospital was they had different books than the kind she had at her old school before she had polio.