At 104 Degrees My Baby Was Burning Up, and the Doctor Said New Mothers Panic Over Nothing. Then My Seven-Year-Old Lifted Her Teddy Bear and Asked to Tell Him What Grandma Had Really Been Doing

The nurse came back with a clear medication bag.

Dr.

Ackerman put the sealed prescription bottle into it, wrote the time on the label in his small precise hand, and set it on the counter where everyone could see it.

Then he asked my daughter when she had first noticed the medicine had been changed, and she told him again — the first night — and he noted that as well.

Chapter 8 — The Sealed Bag