Tips from the 'Amy Goes to Boston' Web site

Marge Morgan was in the left lane.

She needed to be in the right.

That is a big difference on Boston's Storrow Drive, where traffic is usually thick and hostile.

A directional can do you only so much good. You also need a little mercy - someone willing to do a good deed.

Maybe if the drivers on Marge's right knew she was transporting her daughter, Amy, a young mother, a young everything, to a hospital to be treated for leukemia, they might have eased up on the gas and let a stranger into their lane.

No one did.

Marge now jokes that she had to drive almost to New Hampshire to turn around. But it is really not a joke. It certainly wasn't that day in October 2001.

Marge and Amy were an hour late for the appointment, then had to deal with parking, which, in Boston, is not for sissies.

The doctor was two hours late, so, in the end, the stressful rigmarole was no big deal.

At least compared to a leukemia diagnosis.

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