It was evening when I arrived at the hospital. I skipped the elevator and climbed the three floors to the ER in a heartbeat. To Audrey, it may have been only a day since she last saw me. From my perspective, it felt like an eternity. I was missing her badly, and, for some strange reason, I was thinking even her physical appearance might even have changed since our last conversation on the sidewalk near her place. As soon as I pushed open the swinging doors on the third floor and turned the ...