Holly Richardson: Feeling gratitude for a special life

“We have serious concerns about your daughter,” a doctor I did not know pronounced.No fanfare, no introduction. I was alone in my hospital bed, about nine hours post-Cesarean as he laid out a list of at least a dozen things that were “cause for concern.” The real kicker was when he said they had no way to predict how long she would live. Maybe a month, maybe a year.And just like that, the pretty little quiet life I had imagined went out the window. I was 23 years old.It w