You know your mother loves you when

• she washes and wipes your butt and changes your diaper. When you're in your 20s.
• she holds back your hair when you're vomiting.
• she washes the vomit off your glasses. (How do you vomit on your glasses, anyway?)
• she spends the night at the hospital in a reclining chair next to your bed. Not comfy.

24-hour stomach bugs are no fun (especially when you have a 10-inch incision across your abdomen)...