Epic fail - I'm sitting on the couch watching the winter olympics right now and I'm so tired I can't even move. I've spent the last 3 days sitting in the ICU with Lauren, who's completely incoherent and just sleeps all the time. The doctor wouldn't use the term "coma" because she definitely was trying not to freak me out (because I wasn't already freaking out obviously).

One summer when she was in college, my sister volunteered in the ICU. She used to say that people call it the vegetable garden. I can feel my stomach turning every time I remember her saying that.