This child dying of neuroblastoma had become translucent sort of like a soft white light bulb you know, the kind guaranteed to last 10 000 hours at 100 lumens. Who could I call now that her warranty had expired? I tried, oh believe me, I tried to contact some divine light source who could replace her fragile filament but I received no answer. Unless this was it. The child in her mother's arms, her vessel of light extinguished.
Thomas J. Barnard Adjunct professor Department of Family Medicine University of Western Ontario London, Ont.