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...While maintaining nurse-like efficiency and tenderness during daylight hours, she insisted on going “off-duty” at night as usual, quickly falling into a deep sleep while her only daughter drained the night away. “I’m not running a hotel here,” remained her response to all off-hours requests, despite my reply of, “But Mom, I’m bleeding.” To her credit, my surgery did extend her on-duty hours from 9 p.m. to 11:30 p.m., a time determined...
...next day Caroline and I sleep and talk and watch TV and sleep some more. Mommy comes in mid-morning, and we wonder to the nurse if Caroline can go home. The neurologist visits and says...
...room at 1:15 a.m., and Caroline insists that I share her bed. It's pediatric-sized, with a firm board at the end, so my legs can't hang over; I have to draw them up. For this reason and all the obvious ones, I get no sleep. Caroline sleeps in fits, waking to vomit occasionally (a usual aftershock of concussions), to tinkle, to cry for Mommy or for Piggie, her constant companion who, unfortunately, is at Grandma's, equally desolate. Caroline hugs the red Spinners bear as tightly as she can, but it is lacking as a substitute...
...difference between human babies and the orangutans," says Wiwiek, an open-faced 24-year-old surrogate mother dressed in her working clothes, a white jumpsuit and green rubber boots. "We have to feed them with a bottle, bathe them, put them in Pampers and sing them to sleep. It feels like taking care of one of your...
...Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz. A sophomore tosses in his sleep...