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“letters”
― Jenni Basch, Half A Brain: Confessions of a Special Needs Mom

“manage,”
― Jenni Basch, Half A Brain: Confessions of a Special Needs Mom

“The days after the call were somber and tense. I could not function on anything but autopilot. Daily activities seemed cumbersome and joyless. The diagnostic center hadn’t called with an appointment yet and I grew restless. A family friend who was a doctor read the ultrasound scans and painted me a pretty ugly picture. She recommended not resuscitating my daughter if given the opportunity after birth. I felt like she had stabbed me in the chest, twisted the knife around, and sliced open my heart. I buckled over and stifled a scream. But I pushed myself”
― Jenni Basch, Half A Brain: Confessions of a Special Needs Mom

“back to standing and listened. I needed to hear the truth. She gave me sound advice and recommended going to an appropriate emergency room if I felt anything suspicious with the baby. She said that our local hospital wouldn’t staff the neurosurgeons necessary to perform life-saving surgery, so we would need to travel to a larger city. Since we became more restless and hopeless every moment, Adam and I decided to drive the four hours south and crash the ER at an L.A. hospital. We went to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center because our midwife found great reviews about their Neonatal Intensive Care Unit”
― Jenni Basch, Half A Brain: Confessions of a Special Needs Mom

“literally”
― Jenni Basch, Half A Brain: Confessions of a Special Needs Mom