Every year between June and September we are contacted by parents who have children that have turned age 18 and are going off to college.  I have written in the past about the importance of parents having their child execute a power of attorney and health care directive because upon reaching the age of majority parents can no longer make financial and medical decisions for that child.                 One parent told me that she had read a story that reinforced the importance of getting these documents in place before her daughter went off to school.   I hadn’t heard this particular story so I asked her to send it to me.                 Alyssa was a senior in high school when she suffered a ruptured brain aneurysm on Christmas Day.  She was taken to the Mayo Clinic, a nationally well known medical facility in Rochester, Minnesota where neurosurgeons saved her life but her road to recovery was a long one.  Two months later she was still at the Mayo Clinic in the midst of rehabilitation.  Her family, however, had disagreements with the hospital staff about the course of her rehab and asked for Alyssa to be transferred to another facility.  Their requests were