A 6-year-old Emily Crockett jokingly holds a knife to the head of her neurosurgeon, Alan R. Cohen
Around the time she entered first grade, Emily began using her left arm less and less. That arm hung limply at her side as she clowned around for this picture with Dr. Alan R. Cohen -- "Big Al" -- who was soon to take a knife to Emily's head to remove a golf-ball-sized tumor.
(Family photo)