The Head Nurse Told Me to Check the Camera at 3 A.M. and I Was Not Prepared

not to.”

She went back to the chart.

I went home to my son.

Liam was at the kitchen table when I got there, doing homework with the laborious focus of a child who finds fractions personally offensive. He looked up when I came in.

“Where were you?” he asked.

“Hospital,” I said.

He made a face. “Why?”

“I wanted to say thank you to someone.”

He considered this.continue reading …