If I were incapacitated, then I would have to stop.
"I was incapacitated," she said, "and couldn't say no.
Shortly before we married, we visited a lawyer who explained that it would cost thousands of dollars to draw up documents protecting us in states that, like Virginia, treat us as legal strangers — documents making Michael my heir, giving him access to my hospital room, allowing him to make financial decisions should I be incapacitated.
Mine, always in my purse, is as unambiguous as my doctor's suggestions can make it: "If I am incapacitated without hope of meaningful recovery, I want to be treated for comfort only, without artificial life support, C.P.R., antibiotics or artificial feeding or hydration".
If I am incapacitated by natural causes — by a genetic handicap, say, or by a virus or by certain climatic conditions — I may be rendered unable to do certain things, but I am not, for that reason, rendered unfree to do them.
I actually have a contact list for my husband of "people to call who know what the hell they're doing" in case I am incapacitated.
What if we somehow found ourselves in a dangerous situation and I was incapacitated, and he thought he couldn't pick up his sister even then?
He also owned Tustin Bowl before selling it to his youngest son, Alex. Mann bought Kona not because he loved bowling, but because it would continue to pay dividends "even if I were incapacitated".
When I think about it like that, it reminds me of all the times that the words were screaming to get out of me, but they never breached my lips because I was incapacitated by how they might be received.
She says that during a hearing on the incident in early November, "the guy admitted to having sexual intercourse with me -- the question was of whether I was incapacitated".
