My daughter Camille was pregnant, and a routine ultrasound revealed that her baby, a little girl named Lila, was in grave danger. Lila had gastroschisis, meaning that she had a hole in her abdominal wall, and her intestines were developing outside her body. It was shrinking away, and she had only one healthy kidney left. It’d be too much to say she was “healthy.” Her intestines were outside her tiny body. Three generations under one roof.

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Persons: Camille, Lila, Jarrett, Irving Zamora, It’d, Zamora, Ezra Organizations: Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital Locations: Knoxville, Tenn, Nashville