Summary of Sarah Polley's Run Towards the Danger

By IRB Media

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.

Book Preview: #1 I had a dream that I was in a blue poufy dress with a white pinafore, and I was constantly being made fun of and treated like a child. I wanted to be a queen, but I didn’t want to be left alone or tested.

#2 I was diagnosed with scoliosis four years earlier during a routine insurance medical for the television series Road to Avonlea. My world began to curve nonsensically the previous year, and my own body curving alongside it gave things a logical symmetry.

#3 I had a 38-degree curvature in my thoracic spine, and I was told that it was genetic. I was relieved that it wouldn’t kill me, but I was also sad that I wouldn’t be able to exalt in the grief of others the way I had with my mother’s cancer.

#4 The first option for treating scoliosis was to wear a tight plastic brace, which wrapped around the torso, for sixteen hours a day. The more severe cases had to be operated on.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Mar 10, 2022
• ISBN: 9781669357971

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Insights on Sarah Polley's Run Towards the Danger

Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

I had a dream that I was in a blue poufy dress with a white pinafore, and I was constantly being made fun of and treated like a child. I wanted to be a queen, but I didn’t want to be left alone or tested.

#2

I was diagnosed with scoliosis four years earlier during a routine insurance medical for the television series Road to Avonlea. My world began to curve nonsensically the previous year, and my own body curving alongside it gave things a logical symmetry.

#3

I had a 38-degree curvature in my thoracic spine, and I was told that it was genetic. I was relieved that it wouldn’t kill me, but I was also sad that I wouldn’t be able to exalt in the grief of others the way I had with my mother’s cancer.

#4

The first option for treating scoliosis was to wear a tight plastic brace, which wrapped around the torso, for sixteen hours a day. The more severe cases had to be operated on.

#5

I had to wear a brace for two years, which was difficult to wear and uncomfortable. I eventually stopped wearing it, and my spine began growing amok while I tried to compensate for my breasts, which were growing wildly uneven.

#6

I had moved out of the family home in Aurora by fourteen, after my father had fallen apart. I had always done everything for myself, and I was used to a layer of dust covering every surface. I cleaned the house when I returned from Christmas with my aunt, and my dad admired me for it.

#7

When I was thirteen, I went on a trip with my father to Europe. I had wanted