Summary of Melissa Bond's Blood Orange Night

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#1 I receive an email from ABC World News with Diane Sawyer. They want to come to Salt Lake City to interview me. I’m skeptical, but I decide to consider it. I don’t want to prostitute my sickness to the media’s love of McNugget news bites.

#2 I was terrified about the interview, but I agreed to do what I could to help the show. I was the story of millions of people just like me, who had survived despite being diagnosed with a terminal disease.

#3 I was in labor for thirty hours, and when the baby was born, his heart was failing. We brought him to the neonatal intensive care unit, where he needed oxygen.

#4 I was thirty-eight years old when I got pregnant with Finch. I’d never babysat, never even changed a diaper, and yet I was pregnant. I was the baby of the family, and I’d never babysat, never even changed a diaper.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Jul 14, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822547179

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Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

I receive an email from ABC World News with Diane Sawyer. They want to come to Salt Lake City to interview me. I’m skeptical, but I decide to consider it. I don’t want to prostitute my sickness to the media’s love of McNugget news bites.

#2

I was terrified about the interview, but I agreed to do what I could to help the show. I was the story of millions of people just like me, who had survived despite being diagnosed with a terminal disease.

#3

I was in labor for thirty hours, and when the baby was born, his heart was failing. We brought him to the neonatal intensive care unit, where he needed oxygen.

#4

I was thirty-eight years old when I got pregnant with Finch. I’d never babysat, never even changed a diaper, and yet I was pregnant. I was the baby of the family, and I’d never babysat, never even changed a diaper.

#5

After I got pregnant, I fell in love with motherhood. I was shocked by the suddenness of creating a human in my body, but something happened when I got pregnant: I fell in love with motherhood.

#6

I had never known anyone with Down syndrome, and I was terrified that I wouldn’t be able to care for Finch. But as I held him, I realized that I loved him with a power that turned my tender heart liquid.

#7

I lay awake thinking about Beauty the night after I find out about Finch’s diagnosis. I remember how I had studied the epics in college, and how they always talked about Beauty and Virtue and Truth. I felt like I was placing my tongue here and there to feel for the sharp places and feel for what was right.