Valerie Came Home From Deployment to Find Her Twelve-Year-Old Daughter in Intensive Care

“Charles’s lawyer will call it a reflex.”

“Charles’s lawyer is not a neurologist.” Dr.

Ortega clicked his penlight once, then put it in his pocket.

“I examined her.

I documented the response.

I’ll testify.”

I held the doorframe.

“There’s one more thing.”