March 28, 2026Before I meet Baby Girl, I keep thinking about the family she is entering. She is entering a family that…
March 21, 2026Pregnancy gives you an astonishing number of things to think about. Medical training gives those thoughts footnotes. I am writing…
March 7, 2026Families often recognize change before the people changing know how to name it. Our dad has been noticing something about…
February 28, 2026Sherry and I did not enter her medical crisis as matching sisters. We entered it as the people we had…
February 21, 2026A patient is a person you meet inside a medical moment. A sister is a person whose whole history walks…
February 14, 2026There was one sentence underneath every conversation about Sherry’s diagnosis. I do not think I said it to her. I…
February 7, 2026Sherry was the kind of student who could make a 99 sound like an investigation. Where did the other point…
January 31, 2026We had a family cruise scheduled for January 2024. Then Sherry was diagnosed in December, and the calendar split into…
January 22, 2026People assume medical training makes medical fear smaller. Sometimes it only makes the fear more specific. When Sherry was diagnosed…
January 17, 2026When my family said five, I knew enough to be afraid. Five brain aneurysms. To most people, the number alone…
