My Husband Came Home to an Empty Nursery

had gone so high that one nurse, a man named Hector with tired eyes and cartoon cats on his badge reel, looked at the monitor and muttered, “Jesus, ma’am,” before he remembered I was awake.

There was also an infection.

There were IV lines in both arms, a blood pressure cuff squeezing me every few minutes, and a magnesium drip that made my mouth taste continue reading …