She took a job three days a week as a clinical instructor at a nursing school in San Marcos, teaching assessment to twenty-year-olds, and she has done it ever since.

In her second year she added a unit to the trauma module that was not in the curriculum and that she wrote herself.

It runs ninety minutes.

It is about the difference between a story and a body, and about what it means when a chart accumulates a complaint that never gets captured on a monitor, and about the specific patient who comes in four times in six months with a very attentive husband who answers the intake questions before she does.

She does not tell them it is about her daughter.

She tells them at the end of the second hour, if it comes up.