11.

For the next few days, she seemed to be getting better, but then, week after week, things got worse. She developed a respiratory dysfunction due to an infection or virus.

One Wednesday, at 4 p.m., when I went to the entrance of the cardiac resuscitation rooms of the Montsouris hospital, I was made to wait longer than the other times.

The resuscitation doctor whom I had spoken to on the phone on the first day of the operation and whom I had met several times during my previous visits, arrived at the famous entrance.