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    The Green Light

    Jul 25, 2018 5 minutes
    By Kathryn Merz, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS

    I stared at the clock on the ICU wall. It was 3 a.m. and I couldn’t sleep. I couldn’t think. I couldn’t pray anymore. My two-year-old son, Joseph, lay on the hospital bed, hooked up to about a million machines. My husband, Brian, slept in an armchair by Joseph’s bed. Every beep of the machinery seemed to echo my deepest, darkest fears. Joseph might not make it.…

    A day ago, Joseph had been a happy, mellow toddler who loved playing with trucks and eating mac and cheese. Now doctors were preparing Brian and me for the worst. For the inevitable. All because of a freak accident in the snow.

    We’d spent that entire Saturday, January 24, 2015, sledding and building snowmen, only returning to our warm apartment when

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