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A parent's relationship to sickness

If I was sick more than once a year, I don’t remember it. Excluding periods of childhood and the occasional hospitalization, for over a decade I’d never been sick more than once per year; the kind of sick where I’d think, “I should stay home and recover from this.” All that changed with Graham. The inability to recover. When I’d get sick, even with a fever, one full day’s rest was all I needed to recover.…