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

lacerating guilt of a medical professional who missed what was happening to her own child—would stay with me for years. Dr. Reeves, Emma’s therapist, would eventually become my therapist too, and she would tell me that guilt was not the same as responsibility, that I had done everything a reasonable person would have done with the information available.continue reading …