Stitches: A Memoir Versions of Reality Quotes

After David sees his stitches for the first time, and then sees his mom after seeing his stitches, he dreams of a little bat who sees an umbrella and thinks it's his mother. But when the bat opens the umbrella, it's broken, and he's alone and wet.

In the preceding panels, teenage David sits in his first therapy session with his arms crossed, scowling. We don't see the therapist at first; we just see his words intruding on David's panels as speech balloons. In panel 4.21, we finally see him—and he's the White Rabbit from Alice in Wonderland, setting his stopwatch to time the session.