By Beverly Beckham
"A wisp of a girl, 32 pounds and 3 feet 2 inches tall,
she walks into the examination room, her hand in mine, and her lower lip
quivers.
They want to give her an echocardiogram, which requires that she be naked
from the waist up and lie still on a flat table in a dark room for about 20
minutes while a technician spreads gel on her chest and uses what looks like
a microphone to take pictures of her heart.
I lift her up and show her the monitor and explain to her that this is just
a different way of taking pictures. "So the doctor can see what's inside of
you, LuLu." As if they could ever see all that is inside this child.'
Rest of article and picture of Lucy here: http://tinyurl.com/4r9v7u
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