My 6-Year-Old Son Pushed Me Down the Stairs—When My Sight Suddenly Returned, I Saw the Family Portrait and Realized I Had Been Raising Someone Else’s Child

Neurological change.

Rehabilitation.

Another traumatic event.

No doctor could point to the staircase fall and say:

This repaired Nora.

What they could say was:

My visual pathways were far more intact than Douglas had allowed me to believe.

And years earlier, appropriate specialist follow-up might have discovered that.