A few hours later, he apologized.
Two days after that, he told Rachel I had been “confused all morning.”
I hadn’t.
Then came the medication problems.
At Laura’s house, I took control of my own pill organizer with help from a visiting nurse.
Something strange happened.
Within five days, I felt clearer.
Still exhausted.
Still nauseated.
Still recovering.
But clearer.
I told Dr. Pierce.
He reviewed my medication list.
My blood work.
Nothing suggested some dramatic poisoning.
What it suggested was that I had not always been receiving my medications consistently.
Sometimes too much of one prescribed sedating medication may have been given.
Sometimes pain medicine was missing.
Sometimes anti-nausea medicine had not been given when the log said it had.
Investigators later learned Daniel had been using some of my controlled pain medication himself.
He admitted that eventually.
He said his back hurt.
He said he was stressed.
