by Mira Tamir Spiegel “What does she do for fun?” Zoe’s neurologist, Dr. Jeste, asked during our first appointment. It was like reliving that moment when you realized the test was on the one thing you hadn’t studied.
I had a 4-year-old — and I couldn’t answer that simple question. Two years earlier, my husband and I had taken Zoe to a developmental pediatrician.
We half-expected the doctor would laugh in our faces, call us hysterical first-time parents and send us home with a lecture about how speech delays run in families and how we just needed to chill out.
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