SIX YEARS AFTER MY DAUGHTER’S TWIN WAS DECLARED STILLBORN, A HOSPITAL BLOOD DRAW REVEALED SHE HAD A SISTER THE WHOLE FAMILY HAD BEEN LIED TO ABOUT
“That has to be a lab error,” I said.
“It might be,” the nurse agreed, not sounding like she believed it. “We’ll run it again. But I do need to flag it, because it’s not the kind of discrepancy that resolves itself twice.”
It didn’t resolve itself twice.
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The hospital’s records department took nine days to produce anything beyond apologetic silence, and it was only because I threatened, calmly and then not calmly, to involve a lawyer that anyone agreed to pull the original delivery paperwork instead of simply the digitized summary.
