Code blue, room 417. The announcement cut through the pediatric ICU like a siren under water. I watched three nurses sprint past me, their sneakers squeaking on the linoleum. A doctor I’d met only once shoved through the doorway to my daughter’s room, and suddenly there were too many bodies between me and the one person I needed to reach. My 7-year-old, Meline, lay on the bed surrounded by machines. Her small chest rose and fell under the steady rhythm of the ventilator. Lines and monitors trace