i am acquainted with a four-year-old who, after five months immobilized in spica casts under a tentative diagnosis of osteogenesis imperfecta, over the past fortnight, has been diagnosed with hepatoblastoma, biopsied, has endured the installation of a central line, a day or two of intravenous morphine, and several infusions of his first course of chemotherapy.
tonight he wants to eat sushi.