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“C’mon mommy, we’re going to be late!” Ella shouted from down stairs, where she was bouncing on her new keds and pulling on her book bag straps.
Betty came rushing down the stairs as she pulled on her cardigan.
“I’m here.”
“Okay let’s go to kindergarten!” Her daughter squealed as she pulled on Betty’s hand.
Kindergarten. Little five year old Ella has been saying, screaming, muttering, squealing, crying that word since pre-k ended.
Betty didn’t get a peep of sleep the night before. Ella was too excited, too scared, too nervous, too happy, too sad for her first day of kindergarten.
Ella Violet Cooper, was diagnosed with bipolar disorder at age three.
When Ella turned two Betty started to see some weird changes in her. She could be happy about the world, smiling at the puppy’s that past by her and waving at the toddlers at the park.
Then the next minute she would be throwing glass breaking tantrums. Her whole mood would change, irrupting from sunshine’s to world wide disasters.
It pained Betty to see her baby girl cry, especially for no reason at all. So she decided she had enough and took her to her pediatrician.
On August, 2nd, 2019, Ella was officially diagnosed with bipolar disorder.
Betty cried in her cousin’s arms for nights counting, sobbing how sorry of a mother she felt. Mumbling how much she hated Ella’s father and how much she wished he came back.
She knew she had to snap out of it, for her daughter, for herself. So she did.
Two years later now, Ella and Betty Cooper are on their way to Riverdale Elementary for the first day of kindergarten.