The first time I rolled my son’s hospital bed past those glass conference rooms, the silence felt violent. Eyes flickered up, then away. The monitors sang a soft, terrifying metronome, counting the beats between what I’d been told mattered and what actually did. In that moment, every promotion, every late night, every sacrificed birthday felt obscenely smal… Continues…
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