I Took My Nephew From a Shelter After His Mother Abandoned Him—Fifteen Years Later, He Held Her Life in His Hands

Just relief that this chapter was finally, definitively closed.

Three weeks later, I attended a ribbon-cutting ceremony at Cedar Ridge Medical Center. They’d built a new pediatric wing, and somehow—through a series of donations and grant applications I’d helped coordinate over the past year—they’d named it after me.

The Monica Rivers Pediatric Wing.continue reading …