Summary

In “Here and Now,” Maddy states that while a person cannot predict the future, he can also not predict the past.

In “For My Eyes Only” Maddy gets an email from Melissa Francis, the doctor who took care of her in the hospital in Hawaii. Even though this doctor only saw Maddy for a few hours, she says that she has put much research into her case since that time. She does not believed that Maddy has SCID. She attaches a variety of test results and suggests that Maddy get a second doctor, other than her mother, to review them. She tells Maddy she thinks that Maddy did catch a virus that caused an attack of myocarditis because Maddy’s immune system is weak as a result of the way she has been living.

In the section “Protection...