When everyone is gone, and I can be sentinel while she sleeps in the dim hospital room, is when I am able to relax again.

Please hear this in a completely mild tone as a jaded server breezes past me ...

"The kid at my table is doing Tiktok dances while his mother is sitting there, crying. What a mood"

I have eaten an ill advised amount of salt and vinegar chips in my day but for some reason my cats are sniffing me and this bag like I brought contraband into their good, Christian home...

My cat walked halfway into the room while chirping hello. I giant sneezed twice and she turned back around again.