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When the Hospital Becomes Home
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It was supposed to be 48–72 hours. Then three days wasn’t three days.
Slowly, the hospital stopped being somewhere we visited and became where our family lived. Clothes stayed in the car. Meals came from cafeterias. Work happened from hallways and bedside chairs. And life outside the hospital somehow kept moving.
In this episode, MaryBeth and Susan share what happens when a hospital stay stretches far beyond what you expected—the exhaustion, the waiting, the guilt of leaving, and the practical lessons they wish they had known when those first three days turned into much more…
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