"There will always be the older white woman in Walmart who stared at us with sheer disgust, or the African-American mother who looked at us and just shook her head.”
His father describes Quenten's experience with plain old influenza as "unbelievable." Quenten, who had not had his flu shot this season, was soon put on a ventilator and into a medically-induced coma.
"I turned her over and she was blue. I went to see if her belly was moving, to see if she was breathing, and she wasn’t breathing. It was very, very scary. It was terrifying.”