Leila
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Here are a few things from the article about Elizabeth Smart and Jaycee Dugard in In Touch magazine.
Jaycee is working with a "team of counselors" to help her get over everything she's been through.
While held prisoner she never saw a doctor and lived off TV dinners. After she war reunited w/her family her mother only gave her TV dinners at 1st because that's what she was used to, but now Terry is starting to cook for her too.
Jaycee has just discovered that she loves hot sauce.
The Garridos kept her in shackles -Makes me wonder if her daughters saw her kept in shackles.
She has started talking more about Garrido who behaved very strangely. Veering from violent rape to claiming he was a prophet and saying that he talked to Jesus through the box he carried around.
According to a family friend "Jaycee is not sitting in a corner crying now." "she's got her mother, her sister, and her daughters. They're all talking and the more they talk, the more they realize what sick man Garrido is."
She is also getting over her attachment to Garrido.
The computer composite pictures don't look anything like Jaycee. The conditions she had to live with have taken a physical toll on her. According to a family friend the composites "made her look like Christie Brinkley. Jaycee is a good-looking girl, but you can't even imagine what she looks like -it's not that. You're going to be shocked."
Carl Probyn said "she's not great, she's not line dancing ever night, but it's only been six weeks. She will be fine."
Thanks for the synopsis of this article! I find it encouraging. It sounds like all those involved took a slow approach, feeding Jaycee tv dinners as that's what she's been used to. Now that her mom is beginning to cook some homemade meals, she'll probably start looking forward to "what's for dinner."
I'm surprised that she was kept in shackles. I wonder if this was early on and discontinued after the two children were born, or has been a constant for the entire length of her captivity?
As far as how Jaycee looks, it's not surprising that she doesn't look like the composites. The primitive conditions she was kept in, lack of any sort of medical care, and stress, would all play a part in how she looks.
One of the things I think is most encouraging is the report that they - Terry, Jaycee, and the two girls, are talking and that Jaycee is getting over her attachment to PG. It sounds that the two girls are included in the discussion of PG and realize that he's a sick man. This means they understand a healthy, normal, relationship vs a sick relationship, and that's a good beginning. With a team of counselors helping them, I think they're in a good, positive environment and will eventually be okay.
I'm also glad to see a quote from Carl Probyn. It sounds like he is included as part of the family.