Status Updates From The Invisible Life of Ivan ...

Ivan became friends w/ Polina, his only ever friend, but she entered the hospital already dying of leukemia. The time they had was very special, in many ways. I knew she would die but was not prepared for how devastated it made me feel.

TOO FUNNY : Ivan had his 1st erection @ age 10 but didn't know what to do with it. Nurse gave him a book which led him to masturbation, but he only had his left arm and 3 fingers, not great for self-pleasure but.... he practiced and practiced and since he got the hang of it, he hasn't missed a night in 6 years :)

Slow reading

17 year old Ivan has NEVER known life outside the Hospital for Gravely Ill Children as he was born with severe, gross genetic abnormalities caused by the Chernobyl radiation, and he is telling his story. Even though it is a slow-paced story, I like it because I like Ivan; he is not a whiner, a complainer but accepts that this is his karma and he says, "I AM hideous."