Valerie Came Home From Deployment to Find Her Twelve-Year-Old Daughter in Intensive Care
“I’ll document it as a voluntary response.”
“Can she hear me when her eyes are closed?” I asked.
“The brain isn’t a light switch,” he said.
“Keep talking.
Familiar voices help.”
He looked at the clipboard again.
“And tell the father to stay out of this room until I say otherwise.”
“Charles has equal say.”
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