Your child. Crying out from down the hall. Not the everyday cry. The other one. The one that goes straight through your chest before your feet even hit the floor. They're burning up. Skin like a furnace. Eyes glassy and far away. And there's a cough now — deep, wet, rattling — that wasn't there when you tucked them in. You tell yourself: stay calm, just drive to the ER. You grab your keys. You scoop up your child. You throw open the front door — Because whatever happened out there — the storm, the blackout, the thing on the news you didn't take seriously enough — it's worse than they said. The road is gone. Or blocked. Or simply too dangerous to cross in the dark with a sick child in your arms. And standing there in that doorway, you feel something cold settle into your stomach. Because you realize, all at once, the thing you should have faced years ago: Because that feeling — that helplessness — is the exact thing I'm going to help ...
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