For Ten Years I Drained My Savings to Rescue My Three Grown Children — Then I Woke From Surgery to Learn They’d Filed a Court Petition, While I Was on the Operating Table, Citing Every Loan I Ever Gave Them as Proof I’d Lost My Mind

They didn’t leave me.

They filed me.”

Chapter 12 — Erratic Squandering

Harrison leaned forward, and there was no gentleness left in his face now, only a grave, cold anger held under tight control.

“They filed a sworn affidavit,” he said, “claiming that you suffer from severe cognitive decline.

That you are no longer competent to manage your own estate.” I shook my head, but he went on, because I needed to hear it.

“And as their evidence — Frances, listen to me — as their evidence that your mind is failing, they cited the money you gave them.