When I brought my newborn baby son home from the hospital we had a broken TV; it took at least 30 minutes to warm up.
I was sleeping out on the futon in the living room of our tiny one bedroom apartment and I was leaving the television on all night, muted, so that when the baby woke to be fed I could sit up to nurse him.
I needed something to keep me awake because I was so afraid of falling asleep and dropping him.
There were two news stories that played over and over again all night on the one channel (no cable) that stayed on the air twenty-four hours. They were horrific and they had video attached. For several nights I’d wake up to these