Parenting Made Me Fearless

I did not expect that my first two years as a parent would require me to acknowledge my own mortality, and worse, my son’s.

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Pediatric Hematology and Oncology is not a place any parent wants to find themselves. The décor is relentlessly cheerful, like an overactive air freshener trying to cover up the smell of death. But it was not the…