Charlie Willette threads a wooden bead during a physical therapy session at St. Luke’s Hospital in Fargo, N.D. His body suit and plastic mask help prevent added scarring from his severe burns.
Charlie winces as Sevigny adjusts his mask and splint. The splint, which keeps his arm extended at a 90-degree angle, helps prevent potential webbing under his arm.
When 3-year-old Charlie Willette gazes into a mirror, he sees a clear plastic mask that hardly hides massive burns and facial scars--or the physical and emotional pain they bring. Others see something else in Charlie, who was burned along with his…