Over time, each of my children has drawn close to me for healing, and pulled away for the same reason. I am, after all, the one they hold responsible for the shifting emotional sand in their psyche. Ten years ago, I remarried a man whose children were also grown. We imagined that wo...
In a room at Texas Children Cancer Center in Houston, eight-year-old Simran Jatar lay in bed with a drip (点滴) above her to fight her bone cancer. Over her bald (秃的) head, she wore a pink hat that matched her clothes. But the third grader’s cheery dressing didn’t mask her ...
So you can have a completely innocent doctor going nuts because his cancer patient acts like twice the level of painkiller that should be helping is nothing but water…because it actually *is* nothing but water. There’s also the ever popular “pain treat them to death” option that someti...