Valerie Came Home From Deployment to Find Her Twelve-Year-Old Daughter in Intensive Care
“What transfer request?”
She reached into her coat pocket and pulled out a folded hospital printout.
“The night nurse gave me this when I asked for the visitor log.”
The sheet had a line through the middle with a time stamp.
Northgate Children’s Center, Rochester.
Transfer review requested at 4:40 p.m.
“That was twenty minutes before Charles offered me tea,” I said.
Elena folded her hands in her lap.