At a small Chicago clinic, an Alaska nurse called about my daughter and said, “Your son-in-law hasn’t been here.” I booked the first flight north without crying, and by dawn, his Bahamas honeymoon was no longer the worst thing I’d found. – News

medical situation made future planning impossible. He didn’t want her school colleagues to know details. Didn’t want the Juneau community “speculating.” He pushed for a move to Anchorage under the excuse of better specialists and more access.

What it really did was take her out of the only town where she was surrounded by people who loved her for herself.continue reading …