Family Tours in the Kingdom of the Sick: Write This on the Tablet of Your Heart
Family Tours in the Kingdom of the Sick: Write This on the Tablet of Your Heart When COVID struck Rebecca Saltzman’s family, the virus unmasked a life-changing discovery: her husband and two of their kids had genetic heart disease. The kind where people drop dead. As their healthy wife and mother, Saltzman had a new role too—guiding her family through what Susan Sontag called the Kingdom of the Sick. In this column, she exp...