"The story brought me strange comfort, knowing that someone had glimpsed that life, the one where you are woken up constantly in the night and wonder whether it is night or day or if you will ever get out of sweatpants, and as I waited to hear news regarding red blood cells, a part of me was falling apart for the mothers and children I saw there whose stay would not be nine or ten days, as ours, but mo" . . . . .