Opinion: The agony of finding decent health care for my young-adult daughter with Down syndrome
As with just about everything else — school, employment, housing, friends — health care is even harder now that Sophie is an adult.
Several years ago, a local artist asked if she could paint my younger daughter, then a tween, as part of a series of life-size portraits of people she knew.
Monica Aissa Martinez really gets under her subjects’ skin — the final product is more medical map than pretty picture, documenting the elements (both scientific and ephemeral) that make a person unique.
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