I Called My Mom After Giving Birth and She Said She Was Too Busy With My Sister’s Party Until the Next Day They Came Begging

and a social worker, and that no visitors should be allowed to enter without my explicit approval. She nodded and went to arrange it without asking for an explanation, which was its own small mercy.

By noon I had spoken with a social worker, a patient advocate, and a man named Michael Brenner, who was my father’s estate lawyer and who turned out to continue reading …