A 5-Year-Old Walked Into Court and Told the Judge: “Let My Daddy Come Home… and I’ll Help Your Legs Remember”

seemed to believe she had risen from the bed like a saint in an old painting. The truth was less theatrical and far more difficult. She had sensation where there had been none. She could move her toes, then her ankles, then—after days of exhaustion and tests and arguments with therapists—tighten muscles that had been silent for years. None of it was continue reading …