"Are you sure?" I asked my daughter before writing this column. "Yes," she said resolutely. Veronica is profoundly grateful for all the prayers, kindness and advice from strangers, friends and family alike that she received earlier this summer when I first told you about her plight. We hope sharing the rest of her story can help pay it forward in some way. In May, she stopped breathing normally. Describing the condition in words cannot adequately capture how torturous it was: She felt air hunger with every inhalation. At first, it looked and sounded like a gentle sigh. But the small...