I contacted a specialist, who reviewed the available records and confirmed that an emergency procedure had permanently affected my fertility. However, the documents offered no convincing medical explanation for why such an irreversible procedure had been necessary. I felt sick trying to understand it. My affair had been wrong, and I had never denied that, but I had never imagined that Michael might have made a permanent decision about my body without telling me.
I took everything to my attorney, Nora Ellis. She requested the complete archived hospital file and warned me that the missing pages could be important. When the documents finally arrived, she spent hours reviewing them. Then she called me into her office, placed several pages on the desk, and said she had found something deeply troubling. Michael had apparently told the hospital that I was emotionally unstable and potentially suicidal before the operation. According to the notes, he had requested permanent contraception while I was unconscious.
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