Busting at the seams and way too full for its contents, this binder signifies 10 years of heartache, thousands of hours of appointments, phone calls, research, emails, notes, documentation — I could go on and on.
It is filled with a mom’s desperation to be heard and her relentless persistence to get help for her son. Even then, it only contains his records from the most qualified doctors in the country as experience has taught me these voices are the only ones considered to be relevant and regarded in the medical community.
This binder goes with me everywhere because if there is another thing experience has taught me, it is that parents have little credibility in the internet age of Wikipedia and WebMD.
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