Aaron and Me, Works In Progress

"He’s so normal. How can anything be wrong?"

During a routine baby-wellness checkup, Kim Segal is faced with one of the most horrendous experiences a parent can endure: a couple of innocent cafe-au-lait spots indicate a possible diagnosis of Neurofibromatosis for her eighteen-month-old son, Aaron. Ill-equipped to cope with the indefinite nature of the diagnosis, the New Jersey suburban first-time mom spirals out of control. She becomes obsessed with irrational thoughts of how to protect her innocent son from a disease that seems to have no cure, but could leave him blind, deaf or missing a limb. As Kim goes through each successive neurological visit, waiting for medical professionals to give her a pronouncement of normalcy or doom, the uncertainty eats away at the edges of her otherwise normal life, threatening to shatter her already shaky marriage to Hal.