read in browser hi friend, I disappeared for a while there. Some hospital caregiving was required, and caregiving is both my favorite thing and also the thing that most causes me to disappear, literally and metaphorically. I found myself hyperpresent in every bedside interaction, lasered in on the swarm of clinicians every time they came — and also, like the edges of my physical self blurred, became hard to find again. It took me a week or two of recovery, after everyone else started their...