After Heart Surgery, I Woke Up to Learn My Three Children Had Gone Home Because Hospital Parking Was Too Expensive. I Lay There in Tears Until a Well-Dressed Stranger Entered,

addressed to this hospital’s Health Information Management Department.

RE: Request for Medical Records and Capacity Evaluation, Patient Adrienne M. Davis.

I read the yellow-highlighted sentence twice.

Petitioners intend to file for emergency appointment of a guardian and conservator on the afternoon of the Respondent’s surgery, while she remains hospitalized, as her post-operative condition will provide timely support for a finding of incapacity.

Understanding came slowly, then all at once.

“The afternoon of my surgery,” I said slowly.

“Today,” Malcolm said.

“They left,” I said, “to go file papers. Today. While