Screaming Inside My Head

In October 2011 we took our daughter to the emergency room for what we thought was a concussion.  The doctor ordered a CT scan.

"It's probably nothing."

"It's just a precaution."

It turned out not to be nothing.  There was a mass in my daughter's brain.  A large one.

Surgery went well.  My barely-nine-year-old sweetheart delighted hospital staff as she recovered.  She was learning to walk again (with a walker), talk, feed herself, brush her teeth, and more - and she...