Dear Annie,

Thank you so much for your courage to post. You may help another child be spared from this. I am so sorry that things are this way for you and that you weren’t given the choice because of pushy doctors. (They tried to guilt us into surgery for our daughter too. Luckily, we have easy access to information these days and we ran from that surgeon.) I know you are strong and you will handle this as best as you can. My heart goes out to you. Julia