“Once you sign, he can’t make a medical decision for her alone.”

I signed my name on the last line and dated it.

Then I pulled the printed intake record from my duffel and clipped it behind the affidavit.

Marisol looked at the old phone number on the page.

“Your ex-husband’s partner called the ward this morning.

She asked what time the doctors change shifts.”

I put the cap back on the pen.

“Did she say why?”