Traumas, Telomeres, and Transformations: It’s Time for Forensic Nurses to Advance Truths

“Damn a world in which a five-year-old girl is subjected to this kind of degradation. How I wish I never had to give words to what happened to her, but she is owed that at least. …To understand that the very things I survived could possibly chase me down and ravage my body with MS [multiple sclerosis] leaves me breathless with rage. I have fought my entire life to create peace for myself in the face of what happened to me as a child, only for that survival instinct to be rendered moot by damage to my telomeres.”