Cal knows this backward, because he’s had four of them himself since he was ten — it can be inherited, and he’s been screened since the year she died, and his heart is fine.
He put together a proposal in the autumn with a cardiologist from Halvard Regional named Dr. Imri Sood, and the school board approved a pilot in November.
The first screening day was in February. Two hundred and eighty-one students.
They found two. Not hers, different things, but two kids in that building are being followed by a cardiologist now who would not have been.
It’s called the Willa Tarrant Screening Day and my son had to stand up in front of the school board to get it, in a shirt and tie, and he was terrible at it, and they said yes anyway.
The dress is in my closet now. Not hers, not the back of a door — mine, at the front, where I can see it.
