Jenna sat upright through the meeting and answered every question herself.

She asked whether a visiting nurse could check on her after discharge.

She asked for written instructions because exhaustion made it hard to remember verbal ones.

She asked whether she could have someone accompany her to appointments.

I watched her reclaim ordinary decisions one by one.

Afterward she said, “I don’t want to go back to Juniper Street.”

“Then we won’t.”

“I don’t want us to run away either.