Saturday night in the ICU has its own kind of quiet

The nurses are doing their rounds, the monitors hum, and there's this stretch around midnight where you can hear the whole building breathe. I keep thinking about how the families who visit at this hour never say 'I'm fine' — that's a daytime phrase, for people with places to be. Nighttime visitors just sit and wait, and somehow that silence says more than any update I could give them.