Not because everything was fixed, but because we were allowed to be ourselves inside it.

PART 25

At the end of the school year, Sadie’s science teacher invited families to an evening exhibition.

Sadie had been assigned to explain a project on how doctors use medical images to answer questions about the body.

She’d chosen the subject herself.

I worried it might bring back difficult memories, but she told her therapist she wanted to understand what had happened rather than be frightened of every mention of a scan.

She built a display with a cardboard model, carefully labeled diagrams, and a section about why symptoms matter even when nobody can see the cause from the outside.