I Promised My Son Forever—Then Cancer Made Me Count the Months

trial, people will say I’m selfish for risking more suffering.

If I don’t, people will say I didn’t fight.

If we told Leo, people will say we traumatized him.

If we didn’t, people will say we lied.

There is no winning.

There is only loving.

And loving, apparently, is controversial.

The next morning, Leo wakes up cheerful in that terrifying way children do continue reading …