Carl
I was in my office, doing another round of paperwork when I got an unexpected phone call. It was still pretty early in the morning, and I tried not to take any phone calls while I was in the hospital, even in my office, but when I opened the number, I saw it was my mom calling, so I picked up immediately.
"Hey, Mom? Is there something wrong?"
It wasn't that Mom never called me, but it was a pretty rare thing to happen, for several reasons. One of those reasons just happened to be that, especially recently, she was drunk more often than not, so she didn't call. Even when she called, she was drunk. The last time she called me, I was in the city, and she'd been in the area for a visit. She called me in the middle of the night to pick her up from some club where I found a guy trying
