When I Was Four, My Mother Left Me Alone in a Church—Twenty Years Later She Returned Crying, “We Need You”

Engraftment.

More waiting.

One fever can turn an entire family cold.

One laboratory result can make adults cry in parking garages.

Stem-cell transplant did not erase cancer in an afternoon.

It gave doctors another way to fight it.

Hannah did well.

That sentence contains months.