My Surgeon Husband Worked Five Floors Below Me While I Fought Sepsis for 30 Days—When He Said, “I Was Too Busy,” I Put My Wedding Ring on the Hospital Report He Never Knew I Had
“If you needed him, could you have said so directly?”
“Yes.”
“Did you?”
“Not during the final days.”
“Why?”
“Because I thought he should know.”
Dangerous phrase.
Partners should sometimes know.