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Harris, Taylor (Freelance writer) -- Health.
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Mothers -- United States -- Biography.
Mothers of children with disabilities -- United States -- Biography.
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Mothers and sons -- Biography.
Mother and child.
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Harris, Taylor (Freelance writer)
Harris, Taylor (Freelance writer)
Harris, Taylor (Freelance writer) -- Health.
Harris, Taylor (Freelance writer) -- Family.
Mothers -- United States -- Biography.
Mothers of children with disabilities -- United States -- Biography.
Mothers, Black -- Biography.
Children with disabilities -- United States -- Biography.
Mothers and sons -- Biography.
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Sick children.
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This boy we made : a memoir of motherhood, genetics, and facing the unknown / Taylor Harris.
by
Harris, Taylor (Freelance writer)
Catapult, 2022.
Call #:
306.8743092 H316t
Subjects
Harris, Taylor (Freelance writer)
Harris, Taylor (Freelance writer) -- Health.
Harris, Taylor (Freelance writer) -- Family.
Mothers -- United States -- Biography.
Mothers of
children
with disabilities -- United States -- Biography.
Mothers, Black -- Biography.
Children
with disabilities -- United States -- Biography.
Mothers and sons -- Biography.
Mother and child.
Sick
children
.
ISBN:
9781948226844 (hc)
Description:
260 p. ; 24 cm.
Summary:
"A Black mother bumps up against the limits of everything she thought she believed -- about science and medicine, about motherhood, and about her faith -- in search of the truth about her son. One morning, Tophs, Taylor Harris’s round-cheeked, lively twenty-two-month-old, wakes up listless and unresponsive. She rushes Tophs to the doctor, ignoring the part of herself, trained by years of therapy for generalized anxiety disorder, that tries to whisper that she’s overreacting. But at the hospital, her maternal instincts are confirmed: something is wrong with her boy, and Taylor’s life will never be the same. With every question the doctors answer about Tophs’s increasingly troubling symptoms, more arise, and Taylor dives into the search for a diagnosis. She spends countless hours trying to navigate health and education systems that can be hostile to Black mothers and
children
; at night she googles, prays, and interrogates her every action. Some days, her sweet, charismatic boy seems just fine -- others, he struggles to answer simple questions. What is she missing? When Taylor brings Tophs to a long-awaited appointment with a geneticist, she hopes that this time, she’ll leave with answers. The test reveals nothing about what’s causing Tophs’s drops in blood sugar, his processing delays -- but it does reveal something unexpected about Taylor’s own health. What if her son’s challenges have saved her life? And how can she choose the best path forward -- for herself and for her beautiful, unsolvable boy? This Boy We Made is a stirring and radiantly written examination of the bond between mother and child, full of hard-won insights about fighting for and finding meaning when nothing goes as expected."--Publisher.
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