Adverse Childhood Experiences in my life refer to more than some of the popular events that are talked about in today’s media. As a child who was born with birth defects that required multiple hospital stays and surgeries between birth and the age of 15 was traumatic. Waking up with that taste and smell, of the anesthesia Ether is unforgettable I still remember. Since I was in a teaching hospital University of California, San Francisco, that meant I did not just have one primary doctor, but doctors from different fields of study, plus interns and residents that would come into my hospital room. Consequently, privacy boundaries, about who examines your body was not “normal”, because there were multiple strangers who examine me.
