George & Barbara Bush by Ellie LeBlond Sosa & Kelly Anne Chase

Author:Ellie LeBlond Sosa & Kelly Anne Chase [Sosa, Ellie LeBlond & Chase, Kelly Anne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Down East Books
Published: 2018-05-03T04:00:00+00:00

“I remember asking the doctor why this was happening to our little girl, this perfectly beautiful creature. And the doctor said, ‘You have to realize that every well person is a miracle. It takes billions of cells to make up a person. And all it takes is one cell to be bad to destroy a whole person.’ So I came to see that the people who are sitting around alive are the miracles.”

—Barbara Bush

Barbara stayed by Robin’s bedside in New York City while friends took care of Jeb and George W. back home. George traveled back and forth between the hospital and Texas. Somewhere in the haze of the diagnosis and the hospital bed in New York, Barbara accepted that Robin’s life was out of her hands and placed in the able ones of the doctors and nurses. In this world, she was useless, but she could control her daughter’s emotions, her comfort, and she could shoo away any scary thoughts. She read to her, made her laugh, brushed her hair, and assured her that there was nothing to worry about. “I wouldn’t allow anybody to cry near her, so I’d have to say to [Dorothy] and [George], ‘you can’t come in the room if you’re going to cry.’” George couldn’t help his eyes filling with tears as he talked to his daughter or watched the process of the painful bone marrow tests. At Barbara’s wish, he stepped into the hall to compose himself.

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