the same thing.

Our son has Cystic Fibrosis and will occasionally have 14 day stays at Primary Childrens in the CMU. He's 7 and so one of us is ALWAYS there with him. My wife will take the day shift and I'll spend the night. Then we'll both be there on and off for the weekend.

The interesting thing about being there for that long (and as often as we have done it), is that you see other patients and their families come and go. And you talk to nurses who probably share more info than they should...

The crazy thing--and I've seen it dozens and dozens of times--are kids who are in for various periods of times and their parents are NEVER there. Like they don't show up at all and the nurses have to call the parents and tell them they can pick up their child or something. This is common. It's not rare. Ask a pediatric nurse at a big hospital and I guarantee they'll say the same thing. It's true with babies, teenagers, kids of all ages.

I can't comprehend my child being in the hospital and someone not being there with them.