Every single day, me too.”

I have watched Fiona heal now over almost two years, closely, as only a mother and a trauma nurse together can watch a healing, and I have learned something about children that I want to set down, because it gave me hope in the darkest stretch and it may give someone else hope too.

Children are not fragile in the way we fear.

They are, in fact, astonishingly resilient, more resilient than adults in many ways, but their resilience is not automatic, and it is not unconditional.