Two Weeks After Our Baby Died, My 8-Year-Old Whispered, “Mom, She Isn’t Gone—I Saw What Daddy Did at the Hospital”

Could the person decide for themselves?

I could have.

Lucas did it for me.

PART 29 — THE HOSPITAL MEETING

Saint Vincent offered a formal review with the bereavement program and patient relations.

I went.

Lucas offered to come.

I said no.

Not punishment.

I needed one room where his grief did not shape the conversation.