Wednesday, June 29, 2011


I thought we were going to a regular dermatological appointment this morning, but instead got to watch as four nurses dug biopsy samples out of my skinny 11-year-old's arms. They strongly suspect Lupus. Tell me how to explain an unpreventable, incurable, chronic disease with frequent and frightening fatalities to my sweet, funny little chap. (And if you know the secret, tell me how I can stop breaking on the inside.) 

1 comment:

EH said...

Oh, no. No, no, no. Hoping for the best.

what we are built for

in the days when the kids were smaller and my parents younger and they lived here  six months of the year                                   ...