I noticed a small white ball, a mere eighth of an inch in diameter, which seemed to be pressing on the bottom of the spinal cord. (Most people don’t understand that the spinal cord doesn’t go all the way down the spinal column, but stops in the upper back.) I said, “What’s that?” Joelle replied, “It’s just an artifact,” by which she meant a by-product of the imaging process, like a dead bug in the lens. “I don’t think so. That looks real. I think it’s an epidural abscess.” Only now, at 3:30, did it occur to us that Harry Connaway’s
