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Sergei is carefully centered in the crosshairs of the X-ray camera. On this 5th day<br/>after surgery there was concern that he was developing pneumonia.



Sergei does battle with RN Cathy Kinnaman, who tries to coax him to take his pain meds



A defiant, angry Sergei squares off with his foster mom. He refused<br/>to take his pain meds and wanted to escape his hospital room.



Sergei scans an assortment of get-well drawings sent to him<br/>from children in Mrs. Dinkles's class at Machias School.



After 8 days in the hospital, Sergei is wheeled out of Providence Medical Center<br/>to return to his foster home in Lake Stevens.



Sergei loved to ride his trike through the Johnson's suburban neighborhood.<br/>It was the first time in his life he could play without turning blue.



Sergei pauses during a kite-flying outing to Seattle's Myrtle Edwards Park, staring westward over Puget Sound,<br/>his gaze fixed on a point somewhere beyond infinity.



Sergei arrived in America with one pair of boots, 1 pair of slippers, 1 pair of pj's, 2 pants and shirts and some<br/>tattered underwear. His new toys alone will not fit into the bag that previously carried all his possessions.



Sergei had remained laughing as he boarded the aircraft that would take him home to Russia, only to run back up<br/>the jetway to sob his final farewell in Linda's embrace. "Me stay, please, Lindy," he implored. "My home with you."






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