Sophie's Response to "How Fast"

In Martha Rhodes' poem, "How Fast," she uses questions and the word "please" throughout to evoke emotion (in this case desperateness) in the reader. --these are the things I plan to use in my poem. I've read it at least 20 times now and I'm still not entirely sure of the specific situation being described. In the poem she implies a lack of bodily control. "...and my hands can you put your hands where mine should go?" This could mean the result of an accident leading to incapacitation (the fire). At first I thought the "you" she was addressing was the reader, but close to the middle of the poem she says "...how to rise in the middle of the night...Do I call for you even then?" This line makes me think she might be talking to a nurse, but when she says "...in this lot...." could she be referring to a parking lot, or a cemetery? So, is the speaker alive or dead? I'm still unsure, but the poem did a great job of evoking emotion, regardless of the certainty of the situation she is describing.