The Night the Roads Were Closed

“My Son Spiked a Fever During the Storm. For Six Hours, I Was the Doctor.”

When a winter storm cut her town off, Dana's son got sick — and no ambulance was coming.

What kept her calm was a home medical manual she'd studied months earlier: clear instructions, written for parents, for exactly this situation.

"I wasn't guessing," she says. "I had steps to follow. That changed everything."