《奇迹男孩》｜每个人都值得被温暖和善待(4)

下周我开始上五年级。因为从来没有真正上过学，所以我整个人都提心吊胆的。
People think I haven"t gone to school because of the way I look, but it"s not that. It"s because of all the surgeries I"ve had. Twenty-seven since I was born.
大家以为我不上学是因为我的长相，其实不是。真实原因是我做过的所有那些手术，从出生到现在有27次了。
The bigger ones happened before I was even four years old, so I don"t remember those.
大手术都是在四岁以前做的，所以我都记不得了。
But I"ve had two or three surgeries every year since then (some big, and some small), and because I"m little for my age, and I have some other medical mysteries that doctors never really figured out, I used to get sick a lot.
但从那以后我每年都要动两三次手术（大的小的都有），因为我长得比实际年龄矮小，身上还带着一些医生永远理解不了的医学奥秘，所以我总是在生病。
That"s why my parents decided it was better if I didn"t go to school.
这也是父母决定我最好不去上学的原因。
I"m much stronger now, though.
好在，现在我壮实多了。
The last surgery I had was eight months ago, and I probably won"t have to have any more for another couple of years.
我上一次动手术是在八个月前，而且很可能未来几年内都不需要再动手术了。
Mom homeschools me.