A decade ago, on a bright Saturday morning in August, I took my 11-year-old daughter, Ana, to an emergency clinic. She had a terrible stomach ache. Something seemed wrong.That morning, there was a stick bug on our car’s passenger door mirror. The bug stayed in the mirror for the entire 10-minute ride. We had laughed about it – Ana and I – and I took a picture and posted it to Facebook with the caption, “coolest bug ever!”The clinic doctor examined Ana briefly, noted how she winced and recoiled when he gently touched her stomach and advised me to take her to the hospital. I had asked about appendicitis and he agreed it was a possibility.
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