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A second variable had to do with denial. When a child went into remission, which frequently happened, did the parent look at him and say to the doctor, “It’s over with, there’s nothing to worry about, we don’t even want to hear the word ‘remission,’ he’s going to be fine”? Or did she peer anxiously at the child, wondering if every cough, every pain, every instant of fatigue was a sign that the disease had returned? During periods of remission, parents who denied that relapse and death were likely and instead focused on the seemingly healthy moment had lower glucocorticoid levels (as we will
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