OMG I channeled my dead mother today and I suck

To set the stage for this story, when I was a kid my mother was a PICU/NICU nurse. She was used to working with seriously sick and dying babies and children. This lead to a limited amount of compassion on her part to our normal childhood maladies.  She used to say, if you’re not on a ventilator you can go to school, go [...]