The Day My Daughter Told the Doctor to Let Me Go While I Lay There Unable to Speak

details that make a person real, and before I tell you what happened, I need you to understand that I am a real person. Not a patient. Not a line item. Not a cost-benefit calculation. A woman who taught eighty-three classes of eight-year-olds how to sound out words, who made her own pie crust every Thanksgiving, who can identify eleven species of Pacific continue reading …