The holidays remain one of the few times when people who don’t necessarily share opinions share a meal. This can be stressful—but also an opportunity for building common ground.
” over the Thanksgiving dinner table, but this year, I stayed close to home, sharing a quiet meal with my husband and daughter. She came home early from college after suffering a significant concussion last week, and our Thanksgiving plans quickly changed from a major trek to the Midwest to a simpler and low-key affair.
My daughter’s illness has led me to think even more about an imaginary dinner conversation—as concern for the welfare of our children binds parents together, no matter their politics.In our case, when the call came that Rebecca was in the emergency room and had been passed out for half an hour before anyone could rouse her, we dropped everything to be with her.
A concussion is always serious, but our daughter has an underlying chronic illness that already makes daily life a struggle at times, and the compounding effect of the concussion meant that she was now juggling regular symptoms and additional dizziness, nausea and confusion. She wanted to recover on her own, surrounded by her friends, so with the doctor’s blessing we returned home a few days later, only to fly out and come get her when the pain and the confusion became unmanageable.
Why share all of this? Ironically, on the day Rebecca had her concussion, I had been thinking about the more than 57,000 people the U.S. has
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