“I can’t promise an outcome,” she said.

“What I can promise is that we take a newborn’s condition and an incapacitated mother’s account seriously.

Please focus on your family while we do our work.”

I found it unbearable to have so little control.

Then I remembered what control had meant inside our house.

I did not want to become another person making decisions over Jenna’s head.

PART 13

On the third hospital day, Dr.