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    Finding the Ground Beneath the Feet
    Finding the Ground Beneath the Feet
    Finding the Ground Beneath the Feet
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    Finding the Ground Beneath the Feet

    By Vladarg Delsat

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    Experience Gabriella's unforgettable journey
     

    Feeling the Ground Beneath the Feet is a poignant and captivating work that takes you to the heart of Gabriella's moving story. After suffering from childhood abuse and illness, Gabriella finds a new life and a loving family who transform her fragile existence into a tale of resilience and hope.
     

    A shattered childhood, a dream of magic
     

    As a rejected and abused orphan, Gabriella identifies with Willy, a fictional orphan boy who dreams of a magical academy where wounds are healed. Gabriella's fate changes when she meets Hermann and his family, who offer her not only a home but also the hope of a life of promise.
     

    The magic of love and courage
     

    Every page of Feeling the Ground Beneath the Feet is an ode to love and determination. Gabriella, with the support of Herman, her faithful companion, and her devoted foster parents, learns to walk and overcome her pain. The book explores the depths of human emotion, from tears of despair to cries of joy and the tenderness of shared moments.

     

    A journey beyond suffering
     

    Rich in symbolism and metaphor, this novel takes readers on a journey through Gabriella's trials and triumphs. While her story is rooted in the harsh reality of hospitals and treatment, it is also illuminated by dreams and fantasies.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherVD
    Release dateMay 16, 2023
    ISBN9798223220725
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    Vladarg Delsat

    Vladarg Delsat's profound experiences as a pediatrician and a father have shaped his literary voice. His eldest daughter's battle with a rare illness inspired him to write while infusing a sense of resilience and hope in his works. He's a multilingual author born in the USSR who now resides in South Germany. Vladarg's narratives delve into the lives of sick and disabled children, as well as their experiences in Russia and Germany. He's a family man with three daughters and an elderly cat. His passion for amateur radio further showcases his desire to connect with others, just as his books connect with readers' hearts, offering hope and a reminder of the unconquerable will to survive.

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      Finding the Ground Beneath the Feet - Vladarg Delsat

      New life

      Isuddenly realized that I was alive and opened my eyes. Something was beeping to my left. It meant I was back in intensive care. I was breathing easily, and the oxygen was slightly buzzing in my mask. I thought it meant something too, but I wasn't sure what exactly. The mask suggested that I was dead. I knew I was going to die soon, I had known that for a long time, and... I didn't care, I just wanted it to be quick because I was tired. I remembered that my name was Mariana. It was the name that my parents had given me... Tears came to my eyes, and I felt like crying.

      There was some time left before the doctors arrived and learned everything from the monitors. Katya's dad used to tell me that monitors can tell you about everything. When someone dies, everyone starts to fuss around, I remembered... But there were no doctors yet, so... I didn’t know what that meant. Could it be that I just died for a while? Then they were going to come now. If I died... Why did they bring me back? What for? I felt like crying again, so I went on remembering how it all had started.

      I was about five years old when we noticed that I got bruises out of nowhere.  Then, suddenly my fingers started hurting. They would bend backward and hurt for some reason. I was a little girl then and didn't understand that it was better to hide that, so I complained to my mother. Mother got worried and took me to the doctor. He examined my arms, looked into my tear-filled eyes indifferently, and said that it couldn't hurt like that and that I made it up to ask for something. Mum got very angry and brought me home, where she took off my... well... everything to hurt me with some kind of stick. I bled because my skin was very thin: you could see all the veins through it, especially on my chest. It hurt a lot, and of course, I screamed. But after the stick, it hurt less where it always used to hurt, for a brief period, of course, so I realized it was the right thing to do. If I had known how it would all end...

      Before I went to school, I did everything to keep myself from crying out in pain. Later on, they started punishing me with a wide belt that didn't make me bleed, but it also hurt a lot. On the other hand, it didn't hurt so much to pee afterward. I'd always been small – even now I look eight years old, although I am thirteen, so I guess they didn't hit me too often, just a little, so I wouldn't make anything up. When I was eight, I even started to like being punished because it was easier to breathe after that. I no longer resisted and willingly came when they wanted to discipline me.

      There was a girl called Katya in our class, her dad saved my life. I never understood why, though. Katya also had thin skin and bent fingers, but they believed her, and when I complained about my pain, they sent me to... a psychiatrist. Of course, now I know that it was a psychiatrist. But back then, I was excited about the doctor, and I told him everything, and he... He lied to me. The doctor said that I would get better and wrote in his papers that I imagined things and that I was to be treated with injections. The injections were very painful, even more painful than a belt. But after the injections, it was easier to breathe, and my fingers didn't hurt so much, so I cheered up. Katya told her dad about me. He talked to my parents, and they got angry. So I didn't go to school for a week because the belt broke something, I had a fever and... I don't remember. I asked Katya to tell her dad not to talk to my parents because it hurt a lot. My friend cried. She asked me to show her the... result, so I did it. Why not? That's when she started to cry. She's lucky to have such a dad, and I'm...

      Then, I was ten, and in the classroom I had... I'll tell you in the right order. It was because of that test: I got an F because I couldn't remember anything and I could hardly breathe. The classroom was stuffy, so I was short of breath as if I was being strangled. I was afraid to complain. The teacher said that I was lazy and that she would keep an eye on me. I didn't understand what that meant because I tried to breathe better and couldn't do that. Katya got worried as well and asked me to call her dad. The teacher was afraid to say no to her because Katya's dad was very frightening for the school. Then the teacher came back, and I couldn't breathe, and she slapped my face, I think, and told me not to fake it. The last thing I remember was seeing Katya's dad. He understood I was dying and brought me back to life. Then there was the hospital.

      The doctors at the hospital also saw that I was sick and did something that stopped the pain completely. I never came back home. When I found out that my parents... I... It's hard for me to talk about it, honestly. It turned out that I wasn't their own daughter, I was adopted, and they... They said they didn't want to give their lives for... for someone like me. On that day, I died for the second time. My parents abandoned me and threw me out of the house like I was a kitten while I was in the hospital. And then there was an orphanage for such as... disabled. It was very sad there. They took care of us, but there was no Mum there.

      That's when I really wanted to die, but Katya and her dad managed to find me. Katya was in a wheelchair because she could no longer walk. I could. Walking was very painful, but I walked – anything but not a wheelchair because girls in wheelchairs were treated here like...

      Mariana, do you want to live with us?,  Katya's dad asked, and I cried, but for some reason, he wasn't allowed to take me.

      My friend cried too, but the angry women wouldn't let them take me away anyway. It was because of some numbers. I had to stay in

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