There is something about a hospital waiting room that makes you notice people. Perhaps it is the waiting itself. The uncertainty of not quite knowing how long you will be there, what will happen next, or what you might be told. Perhaps it is the unfamiliar surroundings, the conversations happening around you, or the way ordinary life seems to continue beyond the waiting room doors while, for a little while, your own world feels suspended. For a child, this is a place full of
