For Three Years, I Believed My Wife Had Abandoned Me After My Accident—Then I Found Her Holding Our Son and Learned My Mother Had Told Her I Was Dead

“Other times?”

“I remember the hospital.”

For a moment, I could almost smell the disinfectant.

Hear the machines.

Feel the pain in my shattered leg.

See Vivian adjusting my blanket while telling me Chloe had disappeared.

I remembered believing her.

The loneliness.