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,

need money,” I said.

“They need a lot of money,” Malcolm said. “And you’re sitting on a million-dollar house with no mortgage.” Attached to Voss’s letter, the draft petition sought David’s appointment as guardian and conservator, granting him control over my treatment, residence, finances, and property. It characterized me as

“increasingly forgetful” and “unable to manage finances.” It said I had “failed to pay bills on time.” It said I had “made imprudent financial decisions, including large unsecured loans.”

“The loans,” I said. “The loans I made to them.”

“Yes,”