They left their two-month-old with me while they went shopping. But his desperate crying wouldn’t stop I checked his diaper and what I found made my hands tremble. I grabbed him and rushed to the hospital.
His cries jolted me back into action. Without second-guessing, I bundled him in his blanket, cradled him as carefully as I could, and rushed out the door. Moments later, I was waving down a taxi. The cab sped down the Castellana, but every traffic light felt like an eternity. I stroked his forehead, murmuring to him,…
