They Said It Was “Just a Joke” Until I Saw My Daughter Struggling

was patient enough, or careful enough, or if I found exactly the right way to be, the dynamic would change.”

She looked at me steadily. “That’s a lot of work to do in service of a system that wasn’t designed to change.”

The first time Haley got near water again, she was at a friend’s birthday party, several months after the hospital. The party had a continue reading …