“I tried to dial.

Then I thought, perhaps I’m overreacting.

You know how that goes.”

I did.

I knew exactly how that went.

Someone dismisses a concern often enough and eventually you begin doing it for them.

We called the patient advocate together to ask about support services, transportation, and practical resources if future treatments required more help than we could provide.

There were programs to explore and forms to complete, not a miraculous room that would make every difficulty disappear.