بخش 06 - فصل 02

2 On a rain-soaked evening in November of 2011, a nurse hurries down the corridor of

the Lakes Region Traumatic Brain Injury Clinic, an adjunct to John M. Kiner Memorial, the city’s premier hospital. There are half a dozen charity cases at the TBI, including one who is infamous . . . although his infamy has already begun to fade with the passage of time. The nurse is afraid the clinic’s chief neurologist will

have left, but he’s still in the doctor’s lounge, going through case files. “You may want to come, Dr. Babineau,” she says. “It’s Mr. Hartsfield. He’s awake.” This only makes him look up, but what the nurse says next gets him to his feet. “He spoke to me.” “After seventeen months? Extraordinary. Are you sure?”

The nurse is flushed with excitement. “Yes, Doctor, absolutely.” “What did he say?” “He says he has a headache. And he’s asking for his mother.” September 14, 2013