Growth: A Mother, Her Son, and the Brain Tumor They Survived

Can a woman who never learned to stand up for herself find the courage to speak up for her son?

Medical gaslighting collides with a mother's people-pleasing, shattering her expectations of motherhood and threatening the survival of her young son.

Karen is a happily married, slightly frazzled working mother of two when her eight-year-old son, Matthew, develops a strange eye-rolling tic. Over the next three years, Matthew's tics multiply. He becomes clumsy and lethargic, a gifted program dropo...