Status Updates From The Invisible Life of Ivan ...

Ivan is describing polinas kemo hair and her confidence with the wig. The I started reading a chapter called "my hue" which, due to context clues, I conclude means his penis.

Ivan is describing his imaginary mother

Ivan says how he made his therapists believe they were the sick ones then he goes on to calling people with the same last name as him.

Ivan talks about how many therapists he has had over the years and how he read many things to prove that he knows more than they do. He shares his funny stories about all of the ones he's had

Ivan soends more time on 3 monthers and 6 monthers. One of the nurses asks if he would be able to see if it he became a 3 monther and I thought that was intresting(71). Ivan talks more about the nurses there and why he likes Nurse Natalya the most, she was a mother.

Ivan finishes his description of Polina and the pity he feels for her. Yes, she has cancer but she "doesn't belong here". Ivan believes this very much and he is startled by her presence. He describes 3-months and 6 months.

Ivan describes The Ginger Twins and their lack of human communication. The bleeders are peple that are likely to have visible blood and make Ivan throw up. Non-bleeders are the oposite. Interlopers are people with normal to good mental ability and may "pose a threat to the everyday life"pg58 of Ivan.

He says how the prank on the heart doctor with the ketchup was a prank but made him feel very bad about himself.When he did it her fell asleep on the floor.since then the doctor had been bringing his signed baseballs. Dennis and his mother. He was put in as a baby by his mother,with 8 failed pregnancies she got a "soulless" boy.She tried to kill herself was taken, with major brain loss, to the hospital.

Ivan tells the story of Alex very large head and alot of brain damage. Also about his parents coming to see him and how they began to stop seeing him. I think Ivan wrote this because he feels abandoned by his parents and about everyone. He then follows Alex by a story of open heart children and how their doctor he felt cared for after a prank he pulled. "it was the only time I felt loved by someone besides Natalya.

Most of what I read today was Ivan writing about Max, the 3 year old living in the hospital. It describes how Ivan practiced with diapers until he felt prepared to change Max's diaper. Then when he felt prepared he went at night to change his diaper on his one and waited for the nurse to find him. Ivan feels a closeness to nurse Natalya and he is getting alcohol for his writing.

Ivan says how he has no hope of escape, 3 hours of tv everyday, and he couldn't kill himself because he cannot cut his wrists and he hates blood.He also describes the bland food he is fed.Chapter 6 on page 21 starts describing the other children at this hospital.First Polina, who he says should not be there and she is very beautiful.Then Max who is 2 and the protective nature"a cousin of empathy"andMakesHimFeelBetter

Ivan shared how he began writing. He was given books after his nurse, natalya found he was faking his comas and then, instead of punishing him, she gave him books. He then was at therapy and his therapist suggested he wrote. Then he describes his schedule for his day and what has been his schedule for his entire life. Hour breakfast, hour of tv, stuff like that. He says other patients are here but not relations

I learned Ivan is a 17yr boy with little legs and one arm. His left hand is two fingers and a thumb. His skin is slightly see through. The muscles in his face are loose and makes his face droopy. He was dropped off at a church as a baby and taken to the Mazyr Hospital for Gravely Ill Children. He knows very little about the actual world but wants to learn