{"id":11273,"date":"2026-10-18T22:12:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T22:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bbdc.it.com\/?p=11273"},"modified":"2026-10-18T22:12:29","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T22:12:29","slug":"the-stranger-who-sat-with-me-every-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bbdc.it.com\/?p=11273","title":{"rendered":"The Stranger Who Sat With Me Every Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After waking up from a coma, I spent two more weeks in the hospital without any visitors. But every night at 11 PM, a woman in scrubs sat beside me for exactly 30 minutes, never checking my vitals, just talking to me. When I asked to thank her, the nurse said, \u201cNobody works that shift. You must be hallucinating.\u201d Then I found a note in my bag: \u201cYou reminded me of my son. He was alone when he passed, and I couldn\u2019t save him. But I could comfort you. I\u2019m not a nurse. I\u2019m a patient who won\u2019t make it. You will. Live with kindness. Sit with someone who\u2019s lonely. Pass it on.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After waking up from a coma, I spent two more weeks in the hospital without any visitors. But every night at 11 PM, a woman in scrubs&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11275,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbdc.it.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbdc.it.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbdc.it.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbdc.it.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbdc.it.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bbdc.it.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11274,"href":"https:\/\/bbdc.it.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11273\/revisions\/11274"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbdc.it.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbdc.it.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbdc.it.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbdc.it.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}