The Sixteen Seconds
She arrived at 11:10.
Two hours prior to arrival is nine o’clock at night.
My daughter was hit at 4:34 in the afternoon, and a triage nurse in Jasper County wrote down nine p.m., because that is what the adult standing next to her said.
Four and a half hours, in writing, in a medical record, on the first night.
The second was a nursing note from the floor in Tyler, entered at 3:41 that morning by a nurse whose name is Doreen Fitts.
It is two sentences long.