When family stress shows up on the dashboard

look, this is a bit of a departure from my usual posts about protocols and labs, but the underlying principle is the same: if you don’t measure it, you don’t understand it. And last weekend, I got to measure an unplanned stress test in real time.

My mother-in-law is a wonderful person. She also lives four hours away and believes that announcing a visit ruins the surprise.

So when the doorbell rang at 8 AM on Saturday, and she was standing there with a suitcase, it was… a surprise. My wife