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,

Executive function. Financial judgment. Memory. Orientation. She scored twenty-nine out of thirty on the Montreal Cognitive Assessment. The one point she missed was because she couldn’t see the picture of the camel without her glasses.”

I almost laughed. It had looked like a dog.

“She understands her finances,” Dr. Ruiz went on. “In detail. She could tell me her monthly income to the dollar. She knows the value of her house. She knows the balance of her savings account. She knows exactly how much she’s loaned to each of you.”