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MAY 7, 2020: SCROLL TO BOTTOM FOR UPDATE IN BOLD I never could get into HBO’s Game of Thrones. Occasionally, though, I hear plot-lines from

It’s late March and the I pull open the sliding doors just enough to stick my head out of Resuscitation Room A. “I need the ultrasound,”

Gigi Derdus* is eleven years old. Just as I’m heading out for groceries, her mom, a close friend, texts me. Call me if you have

*If you’ve already read this, and you’re just looking for an update, scroll all the way down. March 15, 2020. Unlike the taps inside our

In a 1995 episode of the popular sitcom Seinfeld, Elaine Benes learns that her preferred method of contraception, the Today Sponge, has been taken off

“No,” Ivanka* says dismissively. “You can go: we’ll take it from here.” They’re about fifteen feet away from me, at the end of the hall.