He looked exhausted.
I expected him to complain about his back.
Instead, he quietly told me that Sarah had undergone emergency surgery during the night.
I felt the room tilt.
“What?”
He nodded.
“The doctors said she had serious postpartum complications.”
For several seconds, I couldn’t breathe.
All I could think about was that phone call.
Sarah crying.
Sarah telling me she was in agony.
Sarah begging me not to make her wake her children and take them to the emergency room.
And I had told
