Families learning to live with illness

She has a suitcase packed and ready in the corner of her house, because she knows that at any moment she may have to take her granddaughter Alyssa back to the hospital.
Janie Anderson knows that at any moment she may have to drive four hours south so Alyssa Terrazas can return to the Mattel Children’s Hospital at UCLA for treatment for problems with her bladder ““ a condition that has resulted in 37 visits to the hospital in the past eight years.