The first few hours or days in the hospital, and then the first weeks at home, can have a kind of hazy quality. (This might be the sleep deprivation.) You’re not seeing many other people (unless you’re hosting unwelcome family members) or leaving the house much, you’re not sleeping or eating enough, and there is all of a sudden a demanding person who wasn’t there before. A WHOLE PERSON. Someone who will one day drive a car and have a job and tell you they hate you for ruining their life for not letting them go to a coed sleepover that everyone else is going to.
