This Is Us

The Grief We Share When We Lose a Child to Cancer

What happens when the pediatric oncologist runs out of ideas

The author’s daughter, age 15, performing in a production of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer.”

We remember everything vividly — the appointments and phone calls, the bedside chats and furtive hallway conversations. We remember the look on the pediatric oncologists’ faces right before they told us what we never believed we’d hear.