Pioneers in pediatric psychology: between two professional worlds: personal reflections on a career in a pediatric setting.

mysterious illness, eventually diagnosed as acute renal failure secondary to lupus. Although she had hardly been sick a day in her life, she now was dead, which was a truly devastating loss for our entire family. In the process, I learned that one does not progress neatly through, or ever quite recover from, the so-called stages of grief, but simply tries to outlast them and create meaning wherever and whenever when one can (albeit slowly). In retrospect, at some level my sister’s death may have helped to fuel Journal of Pediatric Psychology, Vol. 26, No. 3, 2001, pp. 185–192