I want to be precise about how that erasure happened, because it did not happen all at once, and it did not happen against my will.
That is the part that took me years to see.
When Gethin had his accident, I was two years into running an emergency department — the youngest chief the hospital had appointed, with a toxicology board certification that had taken me the better part of a decade to earn.
And when he came home broken and frightened and unable to care for himself, I did not hesitate.
I took leave.
I meant it to be a few months.