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How families can unite when facing a child's surgery

Our teenage daughter is having spinal surgery next month and our family is splitting into different camps of how to handle it — some of us want to stay positive and normal, others think we should be preparing for the worst. We're all scared but we're not talking about it directly.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Unspoken fears fragment families precisely when solidarity would serve healing.

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