And it has one sentence in the summary which I asked her permission to quote and which she gave, and which is the sentence that reversed the decision.

This patient has been maintaining her independence by means of an inadequate and deteriorating chair for a period of approximately four years; the equipment requested is not an improvement in comfort but the minimum necessary to prevent foreseeable and irreversible upper-limb injury.

Part Thirty-Eight: Thirty-Four Days

The new request went in on the fourth of December 2023.

It was denied on the eleventh of December 2023.

I want to put that in a part of its own almost, because everybody expects the story to turn there, and because that second denial is where nine families out of ten stop, and because the reason it stopped the Lins for about forty-eight hours was simple exhaustion.