Where it started
The admission you can see coming.
Heart failure rarely fails suddenly. It creeps — two pounds, then three, a little more breathless on the stairs. By the time it's an emergency it has usually been building for a week, in a living room, with nobody watching.
We each had the same conversation too many times. A patient in a hospital bed, and a week of numbers nobody had — numbers they would happily have given us, if anyone had asked them daily and made it take a minute.


