A year later, the Mercer family house was sold.
Dad used the 180,000 dollars in compensation, together with the proceeds from the house, to set up a fund for people injured in road accidents.
He named it after me.
He cleaned the plaque three times.
Mom stood beside him holding an album of my childhood photos.
They began caring for people at a hospital who had lost their mobility in traffic accidents.
Mom learned how to lift someone into and out of a wheelchair, how to change bedding after a patient became incontinent, and how to turn a patient every 2 hours through the night.
I'd needed all those things 6 months earlier.
She hadn't done any of them for me, not once.
One patient asked her, "Your daughter must be very devoted to you, isn't she?"
The washcloth dropped into the basin
