My Parents Left Me in the ICU and Flew to Cancun Until I Saw the Same Name on the Visitor Log Every Night

absence. She was telling someone at the nurses’ station that she was here for her daughter, that she needed the discharge paperwork, that she had been unavoidably delayed by a prior commitment which was one of several things she said that morning that I would have found darkly funny if my chest hadn’t still been tender.

Dana appeared at my door a minute continue reading …