'It seemed bad luck to pack clothes for the hospital. Miranda was healthy. She skipped through white halls out to the parking garage,' says author Allegra Goodman as she unpacks the feelings surrounding her daughter’s brain tumor.
Never open an umbrella in the house! Never put shoes on the table.
It was September. Second grade had just begun when Miranda said to me at breakfast, “Look, my hand is shaking.”At school, Miranda held out her right hand to show her teacher. The shaking was subtle, but her teacher called me. “Maybe you should take her to the doctor?” Miranda and I drove across the river from Cambridge to Boston. We threaded the congested streets of the Longwood Medical campus. I remember writing down the address and number of my parking space because I did not think I would remember it later.
Once again in Longwood, I wrote down where I parked the car. Once again, Miranda skipped through the halls of Children’s. Cheerfully, she changed her clothes when we got to radiology. “I’m right here,” I said, as the nurse slid Miranda into the machine. Only her feet stuck out; she was such a small girl.I sat in a rocking chair with a heated blanket on my lap. I rocked and tried to breathe the way they teach you in birthing classes. Then I stood and paced as the MRI clanged and banged. Over a speaker from the next room, the nurses told Miranda, “Hold as still as you can.” But the scan went on and on. “I’m sorry. They want more pictures,” the nurses said. “Don’t move, sweetie.
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