Today, 52 years ago, my husband was born in a small hospital in rural South Carolina. As a mother myself, I can imagine how thrilled my mother in law was! However, her happiness was not going to last long. Her baby suffered from projectile vomiting and, during the next few weeks, he lost weight until, to use her words, “his arms and legs were as thin as sticks”. The doctor, young and fresh from medical school, did not know what was causing the problem. One of the hospital nurses told my father in law that “he would not be watching...