Nancy embarrassed us. No one I knew had a sister who was sick like this, lying in bed most of the day with some strange illness that had no name, couldn’t be seen on an x-ray or confirmed through blood tests. One doctor said Nancy had schizophrenia. Another said it was mania with depression. Holmer wondered if her wild mood swings were caused by all the street drugs she took at college. They scrambled her brain, he said.
