I Arrived at the Hospital as My Husband’s Wife But They Had Already Called a Woman I’d Never Heard Of – Welcome

holding our spare emergency key between two fingers like she’d won something.

“Almost NOON,” she announced, “and here you are, still tucked in like a princess.”

I tried to sit up.

My arms trembled.

“Patricia, I’m sick.”

She walked farther into the room.

“We all get sick, Claire. My generation got up. We took care of our husbands.”

“I have a fever of a hundred continue reading …