Joy Augustyn, Stitches (PORTRAIT 2021)

We ended up in Emergency late on a Sunday evening. Our family felt like we were just getting back to some kind of normality after the Covid lockdowns. My son was in his first year of school and had just began playing football. He had already missed out on so much and this accident was a bit of a kick in the guts. He was due to play the last game of the season in six days. The doctor advised that he was not to play.

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