My Husband Was In A Coma For Six Years—Then I Noticed Something Was Changing

explanations that made sense were all banal, and the one that didn’t make sense—the one I hadn’t let myself form into words—was impossible.

A man who hadn’t moved in six years could not be getting up at night.

That was the thought I kept circling, the thought I kept poking at and pulling back from, the way you’d probe a bruise to test if it still hurt.continue reading …