My Ten Year Old Daughter Collapsed At School And What The Nurse Urged Us To Hear Changed Everything

tube, the IV line, the bruises on her arm where they’d drawn blood—and I thought about all the mornings I’d dismissed her symptoms. The half-eaten breakfasts. The headaches. The fatigue. I’d attributed it to stress, to the tension of a fracturing household, to the emotional sponge theory that Dr. Williams had offered and I’d accepted because it was continue reading …