My entire body is screaming in fear after that meeting with Maddie’s doctors. Normally, I would respond to something like this by making statistical models. Roping in one of my relatives to make a chart about risks. If this was a rusting i-beam, I’d map out potential for failure at five years, ten years, twenty years. And then I’d chart out potential interventions.

But this is a baby. It’s going to grow. We can’t go inside Maddie and add heart ...