It's been a decade since all our unanswered questions and vague fears about our daughter's developmental issues and lack of speech development coalesced into an awkward string of words -- congenital bilateral perisylvian syndrome, later renamed bilateral perisylvian polymicrogyria -- and a list of possible outcomes, all of them daunting. Ten years since our lives became altered by uncertainty and a monster sitting forever in the room, unknowable but omnipresent.
July 2003, shortly after Schuyler's diagnosis |
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