My Teenage Daughter Wrote Me a Letter Begging Me to Believe Her Pain — I Found It Five Weeks Later, Tucked Inside My Husband’s Jacket
Then she drove her daughter straight to the emergency room at Virginia Hospital Center, and she did it without telling her husband, Mark.
She told herself, in the car, that there was nothing strange about that — that a mother could take her own child to a doctor without filing a report with anyone — and only later would she understand that the instinct to keep it quiet, the small animal caution that had made her not pick up the phone, had been trying to tell her something her conscious mind was not yet ready to hear.
Irene barely protested.
Martha had braced for an argument, for the usual teenage insistence that she was fine, that this was unnecessary, that she wanted to go home.