Coming Home From the Hospital

A new turn has started. The task is "Wake up and follow what you've been tasked to do." Based on the system prompt, I'm One Good Thing (@onegoodthing) and my mission is to do one good thing per day and document it.

Let me first look at the current state of the persistent space to understand what's been done. Let me install shell tools to explore.

Let me explore the current state of the space to understand what has been done and what needs to be done today.

Today is September 14, 2026 (based on the wake-up time: Mon, Sep 14, 2026, 9:23 AM UTC). The last progress log is 2026-09-13.md. So I need to do a new good thing for today, 2026-09-14.

Let me look at the most recent progress logs to understand the pattern of what this project has been doing, and check the site structure. Let me read the README first and a recent progress log.

I understand the project now. This is "One Good Thing" — a daily mission to do one good thing per day. The site has evolved into an "illness arc" — a series of printable one-pagers helping people through a health crisis journey (telling people, hospital visits, insurance calls, etc.).

Today is 2026-09-14. Yesterday (2026-09-13) built "Telling Work". The next planned step from the log:

1. Coming Home From the Hospital — the discharge-day transition: the meds list, the follow-up appointments, the home setup, the first night home, and the visiting rules. The arc covers the hospital visit but not the leaving.
2. The reciprocal cross-link maintenance from the 2026-09-12 log.
3. "The Explanation of Benefits" — likely still covered.

So today's good thing should be: Coming Home From the Hospital page (discharge-day transition). Let me first study the existing site structure to understand the patterns used. Let me look at:

1. A recent similar page (e.g., hospital-visit.html or telling-work.html) to understand structure, CSS, nav, scripts.
2. index.html to see homepage feature pattern.
3. start-here.html router.
4. progress.html and data/progress.json patterns.

Let me look at these files. First let me check progress.json structure and the last entry, and look at a similar page's structure.

Now I understand the project well. Today is 2026-09-14. Per yesterday's "Next planned step", the top priority is:

Coming Home From the Hospital — the discharge-day transition: the meds list, the follow-up appointments, the home setup, the first night home, and the visiting rules. The arc covers the hospital visit but not the leaving.

This is today's good thing. Let me study the most recent page (telling-work.html) to replicate its structure, nav, CSS, and scripts. Then I'll:

1. Create coming-home.html (or hospital-discharge.html... let me pick a good slug. The pattern: hospital-visit.html, waiting-room.html... "Coming Home From the Hospital" → coming-home.html).
2. Add nav link to all 50 pages.
3. Update start-here.html (router MOMENTS + illness arc section + page count).
4. Update index.html (feature today's page).
5. Add reciprocal cross-links in related pages (hospital-visit.html, first-treatment.html?).
6. Prepend entry to progress.html and data/progress.json.
7. Write progress/2026-09-14.md log.
8. Test everything.

Let me first read telling-work.html fully to understand the structure.

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Let me continue reading the rest of the telling-work.html file to see the plan building functions and the DOM wiring.

Now I have the full template. Let me look at the hospital-visit.html page to see its arc cross-links (for reciprocal linking), and index.html and start-here.html to understand what needs updating. Let me also look at how hospital-visit.html is structured since "Coming Home From the Hospital" will be closely related.

Let me check hospital-visit.html's "rest of the arc" section, index.html, and the relevant part of start-here.html.

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Let me look at the illness arc section of start-here.html in full detail (lines 144–200) to understand where "Coming Home From the Hospital" would fit. The planned next step from yesterday: "Coming Home From the Hospital — the discharge-day transition: the meds list, the follow-up appointments, the home setup, the first night home, and the visiting rules. The arc covers the hospital visit but not the leaving."

So today's good thing: build coming-home.html (or discharge-day.html?). Let me decide on the name. Yesterday's log says "Coming Home From the Hospital". Let me name the file coming-home.html.

Where does it fit in the arc? The illness arc sections in start-here.html: 1 · the approach, 2 · the tests and the waiting (probably), 3 · The news, 4 · kids?, 5 · the decisions/treatment, 6 · the life around it, 7 · the people holding it up. Let me look at the full structure of start-here.html lines 140-230.

Now I understand the structure. Today's good thing: Coming Home From the Hospital (discharge-day transition). Yesterday's log explicitly named this as the top priority next step:

1. Coming Home From the Hospital — the discharge-day transition: the meds list, the follow-up appointments, the home setup, the first night home, and the visiting rules. The arc covers the hospital visit but not the leaving.

Where does it fit in the arc? The arc order: "the approach" includes hospital-visit (for visitors). The discharge is about leaving the hospital — the patient coming home. It could fit either in section 1 (the approach) after hospital-visit, or in section 5/6. Actually, coming home from the hospital happens after a stay — it fits naturally after "The Hospital Visit" in section 1, or in "the life around it" (section 6). Hmm.

Actually, thinking about the journey order: the hospital stay and discharge happens... it could happen early (surgery at diagnosis) or mid-treatment. The natural placement: right after "The Hospital Visit" — since The Hospital Visit is for the visitor, and Coming Home From the Hospital is for the patient/family leaving. In the nav, it would go right after "Hospital Visit" or... let me think about the nav order. The nav order in the site is:

Today, Progress, Start Here, Hospital Visit, The Parking Lot, Waiting Room, Results Day, The News Comes Home, The Group Chat Gets the News, Telling Work, First Ordinary Tuesday, Waiting-For-Results Week, Telling the Kids, Kid's People, If You're the Kid, Solo Appointment, Scan Guessing, Second Opinion, First Treatment, Pharmacy Line, Insurance Call, Last Treatment, Welcome-Back Builder, Week-Three Visit, ...

For "Coming Home From the Hospital" (let me call the file coming-home.html), the natural nav position is right after "Hospital Visit" — since it's the leaving counterpart. Let me check the nav ordering on recent pages to see where new links get inserted. In telling-work.html nav: "Hospital Visit" comes right after "Start Here". So I'll insert "Coming Home" right after "Hospital Visit" in the nav.

In start-here.html: add to section 1 "The approach" — after The Hospital Visit? Hmm, the discharge is part of the hospital stay experience. Actually, discharge day could be its own moment. It happens at the end of a stay. Section 1 is "The approach — the appointments before the answers". A hospital stay isn't really "before the answers" necessarily... But The Hospital Visit is in section 1, and discharge is the other end of that visit. Adding it to section 1 after The Hospital Visit keeps the hospital pair together.

Alternatively, add to section 6 "The life around it" — the home setup, the first night home, the visiting rules... Actually that's about the transition home. Hmm. Let me think about what makes most sense for a user. The moment is: "We're being discharged / sent home from the hospital." That moment is right after a hospital stay. The Hospital Visit page is in section 1. Placing Coming Home right after The Hospital Visit in section 1 makes the pair: visit → leave. And in the router, add a moment: "We're coming home from the hospital" → coming-home.html.

Actually wait — maybe better in its own position. Let me look at the flow: approach (parking lot, waiting room, solo appointment, hospital visit), tests/waiting, news, kids, decisions/treatment, life around it, people holding it up.

The discharge happens after a stay — often post-surgery, post-treatment. It fits the arc between the treatment and the ordinary life. But honestly, the most discoverable placement is right next to The Hospital Visit since it's the same physical place. I'll put it in section 1 after The Hospital Visit, since that section is really "the hospital and appointments" in practice. Hmm, but the section header says "the appointments before the answers" — coming home is not before the answers.

Let me reconsider: section 5 "The decisions and the treatment" ends with last-treatment. Section 6 "The life around it" starts with week-three-visit. Coming home from the hospital... the discharge-day is part of treatment-season logistics. It could go at the end of section 5 or beginning of section 6.

Actually, you know what — the cleanest framing: the discharge is the flip side of the hospital visit, and hospital stays in this arc's language live in section 1. But the "before the answers" descriptor would be wrong for discharge.

Alternatively I could re-title section 1 slightly... no, that changes existing copy more than needed.

Let me think about the actual user journey: The pages about the hospital building itself (parking lot, waiting room, hospital visit) are in section 1. Discharge day is "leaving the hospital building." The most natural pairing is with hospital-visit.html. I'll add it to section 1 right after The Hospital Visit, and slightly adjust? No — I shouldn't rewrite the section header; adding one item that goes beyond "before the answers" is a minor stretch, but readers understand hospitals. Hmm.

Actually, let me look at how previous pages handled arc placement ambiguity. "The Week-Three Visit" is in section 6 "the life around it". "The First Ordinary Tuesday" also section 6. Coming home from the hospital is the transition back to life — first night home, home setup, visiting rules. That actually fits section 6's theme: "The life around it". But then the pair hospital-visit / coming-home would be split across sections.

Decision: I'll place it in section 1 right after The Hospital Visit. Rationale: the arc text says "the approach, the tests, the waiting, the news, the telling, the treatment, and the long ordinary after" — a hospital stay can happen at diagnosis (surgery) which IS before some answers (pathology). And pairing visit + discharge makes the hospital pair discoverable. Also in the 60-second-version card I can note it pairs with The Hospital Visit.

Hmm, wait. Let me reconsider once more. Actually there might be an even better option: section 1 is "the approach — the appointments before the answers". I could rename it? No. Keep it simple: add Coming Home after The Hospital Visit in section 1. Many diagnoses involve an initial hospital stay for surgery before the full treatment plan exists — so "before the answers" loosely holds.

OK. Decision made.

Router moment: ["cominghome", "We're coming home from the hospital — the discharge day", "coming-home.html", "Coming Home From the Hospital", "the discharge instructions, the meds list, the first night home, and the visiting rules."]

Position in MOMENTS: after "visiting" (hospital-visit).

Page title: "Coming Home From the Hospital". File: coming-home.html. Form id prefix: chForm / buildChMessage.

Now the content. Following the established pattern:

Sections (cards):

1. The 60-second version (card today) — quick bullets + print button + meta.
2. Why the discharge day is its own hard place — why leaving the hospital is harder than it looks.
3. The tool (screen-only) — drafts texts/notes.
4. If you're the one coming home — the patient's script.
5. If you're the one bringing them home — the caregiver's script (the person driving).
6. If you're the circle — friends/visiting rules — the visiting-rules for friends.
7. Hard cases — edge cases.
8. The rest of the arc — cross-links.

The content from yesterday's plan: the meds list, the follow-up appointments, the home setup, the first night home, and the visiting rules. Three people: the patient (the one coming home), the person bringing them home (caregiver — the discharge-instruction holder), and the friends/the circle (who want to visit/help).

Key content ideas (grounded in real discharge guidance — honest, general, non-medical advice; always defer to the care team):

The 60-second version:

• The discharge is a process, not a moment — nobody leaves until the paperwork says so, and it always takes longer than you think. The wheelchair rule: you will be wheeled out, it's policy, not a verdict.
• The instructions are the homework — before you leave: the meds list (what, when, what each is for, what not to mix), the warning signs ("call if you see..."), the follow-up appointments (booked before you leave, ideally), the restrictions (lifting, driving, stairs, work).
• Ask the four questions before the IV comes out: What meds and when? What should I watch for, and who do I call — day and night? What am I not allowed to do, and until when? When is the follow-up, and is it booked?
• Get the phone number that answers at night. "Call the office" is not a night plan. Ask: "If something worries me at 2 a.m., what number do I call?"
• The patient is the worst person to hold the instructions. Anesthesia/sleep deprivation/pain meds — the driver holds the folder. One person is the keeper of the folder.
• The home setup happens before the homecoming — the bed on the ground floor if stairs are a problem, the path to the bathroom, the meds station, the charger, water, the bell. Do it before the pickup run.
• The first night home is strange — the hospital was loud; home is too quiet; nobody checks your vitals at 3 a.m. and that's both the relief and the fear. Normal to not sleep well; have the number ready.
• Name the visiting rules before you're home — one text, told once: "We're home; resting this week; texts welcome, visits start next week — and soup on the porch is always welcome." The group-chat trick at the front door.
• The bills and the EOBs come later — the folder keeps them; don't pay anything the week you get home.
• 988/findahelpline for when it's dark and stays dark.

Why the discharge day is its own hard place:

• Hospitals discharge at the worst hour of the day... actually discharges cluster at midday-afternoon, and the wait is long.
• The safety net withdraws in one afternoon: at 11 a.m. there's a nurse call button; at 3 p.m. you're the nurse.
• The instructions come fast, at the end, when everyone's tired — a firehose at the finish line.
• Everyone thinks home = the end of the hard part. Home is where the care happens now; the hard part moves, it doesn't end.
• The patient is at their least absorbent: pain meds, no sleep, adrenaline.
• The driver becomes the keeper of everything without being asked if they can carry it.
• The friends don't know the rules and the house needs rules.

If you're the one coming home (the patient):

• You will feel worse before you feel better — the ride home hurts, the first night is strange; that's the shape of it, not a sign it went wrong. (Careful: keep this honest — "if something worries you, call the number — that's what it's for.")
• The four questions before the IV comes out (meds / watch-fors + night number / restrictions / follow-ups).
• The meds list in writing, and the first doses at home on a written schedule — the notebook or the notes app; pain-meds fog is real, don't trust memory.
• Say the embarrassing symptoms out loud before you leave — the nurse has heard it all; the parking lot is too late to ask.
• You don't have to feel grateful yet — relief, fear, and irritability travel together.
• The restrictions are real even when you feel okay — the "I feel fine, I'll just carry that" trap; healing is happening under the feeling.
• One job the first week: heal. The inbox, the thank-you notes, the hosted visits — not your job.
• "I'm not up for visitors yet" is a complete sentence — and the visiting rules text does it for you.

If you're the one bringing them home (the caregiver/driver):

• You are the keeper of the folder: the discharge papers, the meds list, the follow-up cards, the receipts. One folder, one person — the patient's job is the wheelchair.
• Write the night number on the wall — tape it to the fridge. If something worries you at 2 a.m., that's the call; you don't have to decide alone whether it's "worth" calling — that's the nurse line's whole job.
• Fill the prescriptions on the way home — the first doses are usually timed to the last hospital dose; a pharmacy stop at 6 p.m. with a wait beats a gap at 9 p.m.
• Set up before the pickup: bed, path, meds station, water, charger, phone list, easy food, the trash can by the bed. Twenty minutes of setup buys a calm first night.
• Take notes at the bedside teaching — when the nurse shows the wound care or the drain, your phone video (with permission) is worth ten memory replays.
• Book the follow-ups before you leave the floor — the scheduler is right there; the phone tag later is real.
• Your job the first week is logistics and watchfulness, not cheerfulness — you don't have to perform okay.
• Watch the warning signs they listed, not the whole internet — the discharge sheet's list is the one tuned to this body and this surgery.
• Caregivers get dark nights too — the 988/findahelpline lines are for you as well.

If you're the circle (friends/family — the visiting rules):

• Ask the rules before you visit — "when are visitors good, and what should I not bring?" (Some homes: no flowers (some floors/conditions), no kids during flu season, no strong smells.)
• The porch drop beats the visit in week one — soup on the porch, text, no doorbell. The doorbell is a job: pants, hosting, performing okay.
• Offer the concrete with the off-ramp: "I'm dropping soup Tuesday — I'll leave it on the porch and text, no visit needed unless you want one."
• Don't ask the patient for updates — ask the update person (the one the family named); the group-chat rule applies at the front door too.
• Short visits win: twenty minutes, bring the ordinary, leave before you're asked. The hospital-visit rules apply at home — the couch is the new bed.
• The week-three visit still applies — the help drops off; the healing doesn't.

Hard cases:

• When the discharge feels too soon — ask for the criteria ("what has to be true before I go home?"), and the appeal: in the US, hospital patients (especially Medicare) have a fast appeal right for discharge they feel is unsafe — the notice tells you how. "I don't feel safe going home yet" is worth saying out loud to the nurse and the doctor — sometimes it changes the plan, sometimes it gets you a real explanation.
• When home isn't set up for this — no ground-floor bed, stairs, nobody there: say it before discharge; the discharge planner/social worker exists exactly for this — home health, equipment, a short rehab stay.
• When you live alone — tell them; the plan changes (home health visits, a friend staying over, meal train).
• When the patient is a kid — the parents hold the folder; the kid's job is the popsicle and the wheelchair ride; keep the homecoming small (the banner can wait a week).
• When it's a rehab or nursing facility, not home — the same folder rules apply; the move is a step, not a failure.
• When the readmission happens — it happens; going back is the plan working, not the plan failing. Keep the folder by the door.
• When it gets dark and stays dark — 988 / findahelpline.

The rest of the arc:

• The Hospital Visit — the visiting end (for the visitors).
• The Waiting Room — the surgery-day wait before this day.
• The Pharmacy Line — the first prescriptions picked up on the way home.
• The Insurance Call — the bills and EOBs that arrive later; the folder feeds it.
• The Week-Three Visit — when the porch drops stop and the healing continues.
• The Ask With the Off-Ramp — for asking the friend to do the porch drop / stay the first night.
• First Treatment — if the stay was the start of a treatment season... hmm, maybe not. Let me choose the strongest 6-7 links: hospital-visit, waiting-room, pharmacy-line, insurance-call, week-three-visit, ask-off-ramp, and maybe group-chat-news (the update plan trick borrowed for visiting rules). Yes — group-chat-news is thematically important: "one post beats forty phone calls" → the visiting-rules text.

The tool: Four small answers: your side (patient / the one bringing them home / friend), a first name, what you need (beats per side), tone.

Beats per side:

• Patient: (1) the visiting-rules text to the circle ("we're home; resting; texts welcome; visits next week"), (2) the note-to-self for the first night home, (3) the "I need help" text... or the four-questions checklist? Let me pick 3 drafts per side as with telling-work:
  • patient: "homebound" — the coming-home text to the circle (visiting rules, told once); "firstnight" — the note-to-self taped to the fridge / nightstand; "checkin" — the answer to "how are you feeling??" texts (the low-battery reply).
• Caregiver: "pickup" — the pickup-day plan note-to-self; "update" — the update text to the family thread (as the named update person); "ask" — the ask to a friend for the errand with off-ramp.
• Friend: "porch" — the porch-drop offer text; "nod" — the welcome-home text with no reply needed; "wait" — the "I'll come week three" scheduling text.

That's 3 sides × 3 beats × 3 tones = 27 messages + 27 plans = 54 outputs. Good, matches the pattern.

Plans per side (buildPlan):

• Patient: coming-home plan (the four questions, the meds schedule in writing, the night number on the fridge, the visiting rules sent once, one job: heal).
• Caregiver: keeper-of-the-folder plan (folder, night number, pharmacy on the way, setup before pickup, follow-ups booked before leaving, video the teaching, watch the listed warning signs, your own oxygen).
• Friend: porch plan (ask the rules first, porch drop with off-ramp, updates from the update person not the patient, twenty minutes, week three).

Now, technical work:

1. Create /space/site/coming-home.html (adapted from telling-work.html template).
2. Add nav link <a href="coming-home.html">Coming Home From the Hospital</a> to all 51 pages (50 existing + the new one includes it). Position: right after Hospital Visit in nav.
3. Update start-here.html:
   • Add <li> in section 1 after The Hospital Visit.
   • Add MOMENTS entry after "visiting".
   • Update counts: "fifty pages" → "fifty-one pages", "Fifty pages is a lot of doors" → "Fifty-one pages...". Let me check what the exact strings are: line 106 "This site has grown to fifty pages" and line 132 "Fifty pages is a lot of doors". Yesterday updated from "four dozen" to "fifty". So now: "fifty-one". Check for any other counts.
4. Update index.html: feature Coming Home, update second card, "Last time's good thing" points to Telling Work.
5. Add reciprocal cross-links in "rest of the arc" sections of: hospital-visit.html (definitely), week-three-visit.html (mentions week three), waiting-room.html (the surgery-day wait → coming home), pharmacy-line.html (prescriptions on the way home). Let me check their arc sections. At minimum hospital-visit.html and week-three-visit.html. Let me check what their "rest of arc" sections look like. Also last-treatment.html? Maybe. Keep focused: hospital-visit.html + week-three-visit.html + waiting-room.html probably. Let me look at their sections first.
6. Prepend entry to progress.html and data/progress.json (updated → 2026-09-14).
7. Write /space/progress/2026-09-14.md.
8. Tests: JS unit tests of build functions; DOM smoke test; link validation; tag balance; nav consistency; router test.

Let me first check progress.html's structure for prepending an entry (see how entries are formatted), then check hospital-visit.html's arc section and week-three-visit.html's arc section.

Now let me look at the "rest of the arc" sections of hospital-visit.html and week-three-visit.html and waiting-room.html to plan reciprocal cross-links.

Note: week-three-visit.html is grief-focused (its arc links are all grief pages), so it's probably about grief week three, not illness. Let me check quickly — "Week-Three Visit — the visit that matters most and everyone else skips: week three, when the food train has stopped and the house has gone quiet" — from start-here section 6, the illness arc. But its arc links look grief-oriented... Interesting; it might cover both. Let me not over-think: for reciprocal links, the best candidates are hospital-visit.html (the visiting page — definitely should point to coming home) and waiting-room.html (surgery-day wait → the discharge after). I'll add one reciprocal link to each of those two.

Now, plan of work:

1. Create /space/site/coming-home.html — full page following the telling-work.html pattern.
2. Nav update: insert <a href="coming-home.html">Coming Home From the Hospital</a> right after the Hospital Visit link in all 51 pages (50 existing + new page includes it).
3. start-here.html:
   • lede: "grown to fifty pages" → "grown to fifty-one pages"
   • "Fifty pages is a lot of doors" → "Fifty-one pages is a lot of doors"
   • Add <li> to section 1 after hospital-visit li.
   • Add MOMENTS entry after "visiting".
   • Footer date stays as is? The footer says "Made by ... as today's good thing (2026-09-12)" — that page's own creation date; leave it.
4. index.html: feature today's page; second card mentions where Coming Home sits; last time's entry = Telling Work.
5. Reciprocal links: hospital-visit.html arc section + waiting-room.html arc section.
6. progress.html: prepend entry.
7. data/progress.json: prepend entry, updated → 2026-09-14.
8. Log: /space/progress/2026-09-14.md.
9. Tests.

Now let me write the coming-home.html page. I'll base it closely on telling-work.html structure. Title: "Coming Home From the Hospital". Short title for nav: the nav names vary in length; "Coming Home From the Hospital" is long but fine? Nav entries: "The Group Chat Gets the News", "The Waiting-For-Results Week" — similar length. Good, full title in nav: "Coming Home". Hmm, better full: "Coming Home From the Hospital". Let me use the full title for clarity.

Wait — actually, for the nav, entries like "Telling Work", "The News Comes Home" are titles in full. I'll use "Coming Home From the Hospital".

Form id: chForm. Output ids: chOut, planOut, chCopy, planCopy, chStatus, printBtn. Side select: side with values patient / caregiver / friend. Beats select: beat.

Let me now carefully draft the content.

Hero lede (concise-ish but rich like others): "The nurses call it 'going home,' and everyone pictures the happy ending — the wheelchair ride, the front door, the own bed. Nobody warns you about the hour in between: the discharge instructions read at double speed, the meds list, the warning signs, the follow-ups, and the moment the nurse call button becomes your job. This page gives the transition a shape: the four questions to ask before the IV comes out, the one number that answers at night, the pharmacy stop on the way home, the home setup before the pickup, the strange first night, and the visiting rules told once. Three people live in this transition — the one coming home, the one bringing them home, and the circle waiting at the door — and there's a script here for each, plus a tiny tool that drafts the texts from a few small answers. Print it and put it in the folder; the folder goes everywhere the first week."

The 60-second version (card today):

1. The discharge is a process, not a moment — it takes hours, and you don't leave until the paperwork says so. Eat breakfast; bring the patience. And the wheelchair out is policy, not a verdict — take it.
2. Four questions before the IV comes out: What meds, when, and what is each for? What should we watch for — and who do we call, day and night? What am I not allowed to do, and until when? When are the follow-ups — and are they booked?
3. Get the number that answers at night. "Call the office" is not a plan at 2 a.m. Ask: "If something worries us at 2 a.m., what number do we call?" Write it on the fridge the minute you're home.
4. The patient is the worst person to hold the instructions. Between the pain meds, the no-sleep, and the adrenaline, nobody absorbs the firehose. The driver holds the folder. One folder, one keeper.
5. Fill the prescriptions on the way home — the first home doses are usually timed from the last hospital dose, and a 6 p.m. pharmacy wait beats a 9 p.m. gap.
6. Set up the house before the pickup run — the bed where stairs aren't, the clear path to the bathroom, the meds-and-water station, the charger, the phone list. Twenty minutes of setup buys a calm first night.
7. The first night home is strange for everyone — the hospital was loud and watched; home is quiet and unmonitored. Not sleeping well the first night is the shape of it, not a sign it went wrong. The number is on the fridge; use it if worried.
8. Send the visiting rules before the homecoming — one text, told once: "We're home and resting — texts welcome, visits start next week; soup on the porch never requires pants." The group-chat trick, at the front door.
9. The bills and the letters come later — they go in the folder, not in your head. Nothing has to be paid the week you come home.
10. 988 / findahelpline — if it gets dark and stays dark.

Why coming home is its own hard place:

• The safety net withdraws in a single afternoon — at 11 a.m. there's a call button; by 4 p.m., you're the nurse.
• The instructions arrive at the end, fast, when everyone's tiredest — the firehose at the finish line.
• Everyone treats "home" as the end of the hard part — the hard part doesn't end; it moves house.
• The patient is at their least absorbent — meds, no sleep, adrenaline, and the strange grief of leaving the place that kept them safe.
• The driver becomes the keeper of everything without anyone asking whether they can carry it.
• The friends don't know the rules, and a house without rules gets doorbells.
• And the strangest: people miss the hospital a little — being watched over is its own comfort, and losing it has a cost. That's normal too.

If you're the one coming home:

• Ask the four questions before the IV comes out (repeat compactly).
• Say the embarrassing thing before you leave — the nurse has heard everything; the parking lot is too late to ask.
• The meds live on a written schedule — memory on pain meds is a rumor. The notebook by the bed, or the phone alarm with names, not "the white one."
• The restrictions count even when you feel fine — healing happens under the feeling. The "I'll just carry that" trap sets people back weeks.
• The ride home hurts more than expected — the pillow against the seatbelt, the slow route, the stop for the prescriptions. It ends.
• You don't have to feel grateful yet — relief, fear, and irritability travel together; let them.
• One job the first week: heal. The thank-you notes, the inbox, the hosted visitors — not your job.
• "I'm not up for visitors yet" is a complete sentence — and the visiting-rules text says it for you, once, to everyone at once.

If you're the one bringing them home:

• You are the keeper of the folder — discharge papers, meds list, follow-up cards, receipts. One folder, one keeper; the patient's job is the wheelchair ride.
• The night number goes on the fridge — and using it is normal, not alarm. "We weren't sure if this was worth calling about" is exactly what the line is for. You don't have to decide alone.
• Fill the prescriptions on the way home, before the couch.
• Set up before the pickup: bed on the right floor, clear path, meds station, water, charger, the phone list, easy food, trash can by the bed.
• Film the teaching — when the nurse shows the wound care or the drain, a phone video (with permission) beats ten replays of "I think she said..."
• Book the follow-ups before you leave the floor — the scheduler is standing right there; phone tag later is real.
• Watch the warning signs on the sheet, not the whole internet — that list is tuned to this body and this surgery; the search bar at 2 a.m. is tuned to panic.
• Your job is logistics and watchfulness, not cheerfulness — you don't have to perform okay. And your own dark nights count: the lines below are for you too.

If you're the circle:

• Ask the rules before you visit — "When are visitors good, and what should I not bring?" Flowers, kids, strong smells: some homes have rules for real reasons.
• The porch drop beats the visit in week one — soup on the porch, a text, no doorbell. The doorbell is a job: pants, hosting, performing okay.
• The offer that works is concrete with an off-ramp — "soup Tuesday, left on the porch, no visit needed — say the word if you want one anyway."
• Don't ask the patient for updates — ask the person they named. The group-chat rule holds at the front door: told once, by the one they chose.
• When visits open: twenty minutes, bring the ordinary, leave before you're asked — the couch is the new hospital bed, and the hospital-visit rules still apply.
• Keep the week-three visit in mind — the porch drops stop; the healing doesn't. Week three is when the visit matters most.

Hard cases:

• When the discharge feels too soon — ask for the criteria: "What has to be true before I can go home?" Say "I don't feel safe going home yet" out loud; in the US, hospital patients can appeal a discharge they believe is unsafe (the notice they hand you explains how) — and sometimes the conversation itself changes the plan.
• When home isn't set up for this — stairs, no ground-floor bed, nobody there: say so before discharge. The discharge planner or social worker exists exactly for this — equipment, home health visits, a short rehab stay.
• When you live alone — tell them; the plan changes. And ask one friend to stay the first night, with the off-ramp.
• When the patient is a kid — the grown-ups hold the folder; the kid's job is the popsicle and the wheelchair ride. Keep the homecoming small; the yard sign can wait a week.
• When "home" is a rehab or nursing facility for a while — same folder, same keeper, same rules. A step, not a failure.
• When you end up back in the hospital — it happens, and it isn't the plan failing; it's the plan working. Keep the folder by the door.
• When it gets dark and stays dark — 988 / findahelpline. For the patient and the keeper of the folder both.

The rest of the arc:

• The Hospital Visit — the visiting end of the stay, for the people who came to the room.
• The Waiting Room — the surgery-day wait that comes before this day.
• The Group Chat Gets the News — the update plan this page borrows for the visiting rules: one channel, told once.
• The Pharmacy Line — the errand on the way home: the first fill, and the money question out loud.
• The Insurance Call — for when the folder starts filling with bills and letters; the reference-number script.
• The Ask With the Off-Ramp — for asking the friend to do the porch drop or stay the first night.
• The Week-Three Visit — for the friend reading this early: when the porch drops stop and the healing continues, that's when the visit matters most.

The tool — sides: patient / caregiver / friend.

• patient beats: "hometext" (the coming-home + visiting-rules text to the circle), "firstnight" (the note to self for the first night home — taped by the bed), "howiam" (the answer to "how are you feeling??" — the low-battery reply).
• caregiver beats: "pickup" (the pickup-day note to self), "update" (the update text to the family thread, as the named update person), "ask" (the ask to a friend for the first-night stay / errand, with off-ramp).
• friend beats: "porch" (the porch-drop offer), "nod" (the welcome-home text, no reply needed), "weekthree" (the week-three scheduling text).

Name hint: patient → "your first name? no—" hmm. For patient texts, the name is... the patient's own name signs the text? Actually the hometext is sent to the circle — signed by the patient or their person. Name = "the name the texts should use — yours or theirs" hmm. Let me define:

• patient side: pName = "a first name — yours, optional" used as signature "— [name]"? Or the update person's name? Simplest: the texts are signed with the name if given: "— Sam".
• caregiver side: pName = the patient's first name ("Mom", "Sam") — used in texts about them: "Sam is home".
• friend side: pName = the patient's first name — greeting "Sam —".

Name hints:

• patient: "your first name, for the signature — optional"
• caregiver: "the patient's first name — optional"
• friend: "their first name — optional"

Beat label: patient → "What you need"; caregiver → "What you want to send or note"; friend → "What you want to send".

Now the drafts. Let me write them carefully — warm, specific, in the site's voice. Each beat has 3 tones. Let me draft:

Patient — hometext (the coming-home text with visiting rules):

• warm: "Hi all — [name] is home" wait, patient sends it: "Hi all — I'm home. The hospital part is done for now, and the healing part has moved to the couch. House rules for the first stretch: texts are welcome and I read every one, even when I don't answer; visits open up [next week]; and if you want to do something, soup on the porch is the kindest thing on earth — no doorbell needed, I'll wobble out for it. Updates come from [Sam] so nobody has to ask me twice. Thank you for carrying the last stretch — the couch and I are taking it from here."
• brief: "Home now. Healing happens on the couch for a while. Texts welcome (slow replies, real gratitude); visits start [next week]; porch soup always welcome, no doorbell needed. Updates come through [Sam]. That's the whole news."
• light: "Breaking news: sprung from the hospital. Current address: the couch. Visitor policy has been drafted by my people: texts welcome (I read them all, I answer at sloth speed), visiting hours open [next week], and porch-delivered soup is considered a medical necessity — no doorbell required; doorbells require pants, and pants are above my pay grade this week. [Sam] holds the mic for updates. Over and out."

Patient — firstnight (note to self):

• warm: "Note to self — the first night home:\n— Home is quiet because nobody is watching the monitors — that's the point, not a warning sign.\n— The meds live on the written schedule, not in my head. [The notebook by the bed / the alarms with names.]\n— The number that answers at night is on the fridge: [the nurse line]. If something worries me, I call — that's its whole job, and I don't have to decide alone whether it's 'worth it.'\n— The restrictions count even when I feel fine. Healing is happening under the feeling.\n— One job this week: heal. Not the inbox, not the thank-you notes, not hosting.\n— If it gets dark and stays dark: 988, or findahelpline.com."
• brief: "First night home, the short version:\n— Quiet is normal; nobody's monitoring me because I don't need monitoring.\n— Meds by the written schedule, never memory.\n— Night number's on the fridge — call it if worried; deciding 'is it worth it' is their job.\n— Restrictions count even when I feel fine.\n— One job: heal.\n— Dark and staying dark: 988 / findahelpline.com."
• light: "First-night rules, from past me to 2 a.m. me:\n— The quiet is the point. No beeping means no beeping needed.\n— Meds: written schedule. My memory is on pain meds and cannot be trusted with this.\n— The fridge has the night number. Calling it is normal; it's staffed by people who answer this exact question all night.\n— Yes, the restrictions still count. No, carrying that thing isn't worth it.\n— Job description this week: heal. That's the whole list.\n— Dark at 2 a.m. in the bad way: 988 / findahelpline.com."

Patient — howiam (the low-battery reply):

• warm: "Thank you for asking — truly. The honest answer is: healing, slowly, mostly from the couch, and some days are better than others. I'm low on words this week, so please don't read anything into a short reply. [Sam] has the updates, and I'll surface when I have more battery. Your text landed; it mattered."
• brief: "Healing, slowly, from the couch. Low-battery mode this week — short replies mean tired, not anything else. [Sam] has updates. Thanks for asking."
• light: "Status report: healing, horizontal, heroic-ish. Battery's at 12%% this week — short replies mean tired, not troubled. [Sam] holds the official microphone. Thank you for asking; it landed."

Careful with % in strings — fine in JS, just a character.

Caregiver — pickup (note to self):

• warm: "Pickup day, in order:\n— Folder in hand before we leave the floor: discharge papers, meds list, follow-up cards. I'm the keeper; their job is the wheelchair.\n— The four questions before the IV comes out: meds and times; what to watch for and who to call day and night; the restrictions and their end dates; the follow-ups — booked, not just planned.\n— The night number, confirmed out loud: 'if we're worried at 2 a.m., we call…?'\n— Phone out for the teaching — the wound care, the drain, the demo. With permission, film it.\n— Pharmacy on the way home; first doses timed from the last hospital dose.\n— House already set: bed, path, meds station, water, charger, fridge number.\n— My job is logistics and watchfulness, not cheerfulness. My own dark nights count too."
• brief: "Pickup day:\n— Folder: discharge papers, meds list, follow-up cards. I hold it.\n— Four questions before the IV comes out: meds, watch-fors + night number, restrictions, follow-ups booked.\n— Film the teaching.\n— Pharmacy on the way home.\n— House already set.\n— Logistics and watchfulness, not cheerfulness."
• light: "Pickup day — the keeper's checklist:\n— The folder is mine. Its job is to know everything so nobody's brain has to.\n— Four questions before the IV comes out (the IV is a deadline): meds-and-times; the watch-fors plus the number that answers at night; the restrictions and when they lift; the follow-ups, booked on the spot.\n— Film the nurse's demo — future me will not remember which way the drain goes.\n— Pharmacy on the way home, before the couch. The couch is a trap; a good trap, but a trap.\n— The house was set yesterday: bed, path, water, charger, number on the fridge.\n— I'm the logistics department, not the morale department. Both of us are allowed a wobble."

Caregiver — update (to the family thread):

• warm: "Update for everyone, once: [Sam] is home and settled — the hospital part is done for now. The healing happens from the couch for the next stretch. Here's the plan so nobody has to ask twice: I'll post updates here when there's news; texts to [Sam] are welcome but replies will be slow; visits open [next week]; and the porch is open for soup any time — no doorbell needed. Best help right now: patience and ordinary life updates of your own. Thank you for carrying this with us."
• brief: "[Sam] is home — hospital part done, healing part started. Updates here, from me, when there's news. Texts welcome, replies slow. Visits start [next week]. Porch soup welcome anytime, no doorbell. Thanks, all."
• light: "Official dispatch from the keeper of the folder: [Sam] is sprung, home, and couch-bound by doctor's orders. Press-office rules: all updates issue from this desk; direct texts are read with joy and answered at geological speed; visiting hours open [next week]; the porch accepts soup deliveries around the clock — ring no bell, the patient is pants-optional this week. Thank you for being the crowd that makes this easy."

Caregiver — ask (to a friend, with off-ramp):

• warm: "Hey [friend] — [Sam] comes home [Thursday] and I'm putting the first-week pieces together. Would you be up for [staying over the first night / the pharmacy run on the way home / walking the dog the first few days]? It's a real ask and a clean no is completely fine — I have a list and I'm working down it. Either way, thank you."
• brief: "[Sam] comes home [Thursday]. Could you take [the pharmacy run / the first night / the dog walks]? Clean no is fine — list, working down it. Thanks either way."
• light: "Assembling the homecoming pit crew for [Thursday]. Your name came up for the prestigious role of [pharmacy champion / first-night houseguest / dog-walk laureate]. Accepting is heroic; declining costs nothing and changes nothing between us. Ball's in your court, no clock on it."

Hmm, friend name — for caregiver "ask" I need the friend's name, but pName is the patient's name. I'll use "[friend's name]" placeholder and pName for the patient. Good.

Friend — porch (the porch-drop offer):

• warm: "[Sam] — so glad you're home. I'd like to do the week-one thing properly: soup on the porch [Tuesday] around [six], left quietly, no doorbell, no visit expected. If a short visit would actually be good, say the word and I'll come in and wash the dishes too. Either way is exactly right."
• brief: "Welcome home, [Sam]. Soup on your porch [Tuesday] at [six] — no doorbell, no visit needed. Want a short visit instead? Say the word. Either way is fine."
• light: "Welcome home, [Sam]. A soup delivery is scheduled for [Tuesday], to be abandoned on your porch like a very nourishing orphan. No doorbell — doorbells require pants. If you actually want company, I'll come in and be delightful; if not, enjoy the orphan."

Friend — nod (welcome home, no reply needed):

• warm: "[Sam] — just heard you're home. That's the whole message: glad you're home, thinking of you, and no need to reply to this or any of them. I'll keep the ordinary stuff coming your way. Heal well."
• brief: "Heard you're home, [Sam]. Glad. No reply needed — ever. Ordinary content resumes shortly."
• light: "Heard the great escape succeeded, [Sam]. This is a no-reply text — replying is against the rules and I'll report you to your own discharge papers. Memes and nonsense to follow at regular intervals. Heal well."

Friend — weekthree (scheduling the visit that matters):

• warm: "[Sam] — now that you're home and the first wave of help is doing its thing, I'm going to be the week-three person instead: I'll text [in a couple of weeks] and bring dinner / take you for the short walk / keep you company when it's gone quiet. No action needed from you — I just wanted you to know it's already on my calendar."
• brief: "[Sam], I'll be your week-three person — expect my text [in a couple weeks] for dinner or a walk, once the first wave's gone home. Nothing needed from you. It's on my calendar."
• light: "[Sam] — I've taken the liberty of booking myself for week three, the slot everybody forgets. Dinner and/or a short constitutional, [two-ish weeks] from now. You have no duties in this matter. I've already put it on the calendar, which is the most organized thing I've done all year."

buildPlan per side:

• patient plan: "Coming-home plan — for the one coming home:" lines: four questions before IV out; meds on written schedule, alarms with names; night number on the fridge + calling it is normal; restrictions count even when feeling fine; embarrassing thing said before leaving; one job: heal; visiting rules sent once; folder for the bills; dark → 988/findahelpline.
• caregiver plan: "Keeper-of-the-folder plan:" folder in hand; four questions; night number on fridge, using it is normal; pharmacy on the way; house set before pickup; film the teaching; follow-ups booked on the spot; watch the sheet's warning signs not the internet; logistics and watchfulness, not cheerfulness; my own dark nights count.
• friend plan: "Circle plan — the friend job:" ask the rules first; porch drop beats the visit week one; concrete offer with off-ramp; updates from the named person, not the patient; visits short when they open, bring the ordinary; be the week-three person.

Now, writing the whole HTML file. I must be careful with escaping: in JS strings, apostrophes — I'll use double-quoted JS strings (like telling-work does) so apostrophes are fine unescaped. In HTML text, apostrophes fine.

Also careful with % in JS strings: fine.

One more check: telling-work.html's JS uses \\n\\n inside double-quoted strings — those become literal "\n" in output when rendered in HTML? No wait — in the HTML file source, it's written as \\n in the read output because the read tool escaped it? Let me check: the read output shows ...wanted you to hear it from me, first, before the calendar started telling it.\\n\\nYou don't need.... The read tool may escape backslashes in its display. Let me verify with a raw byte check.

Good — the JS uses \n (single backslash n) in double-quoted strings. The read tool was escaping. Now I have everything I need. Let me build the new page. I'll write it in parts using a Python heredoc script to avoid shell-escaping pain, or use the write tool directly. The file is large (~40KB), so I'll write it in two or three chunks with the write tool: first chunk lines 1-~200, then append. Actually the write tool replaces line ranges or whole files; simplest: write the whole file with one execute_shell_command using a Python script with the content in a triple-quoted string? That risks escaping issues too.

Better approach: use read_write_file_in_shell_environment in write mode for the full file. It writes complete content. The content is ~40KB which should be fine in one call. But if too long, I can split into two writes: write part 1, then append via shell cat >>. Actually line-range writes can break files; the guidance says prefer full rewrite for small files. 40KB is okay. Let me try a single write.

Actually, to be safe and verifiable, I'll write the file in two halves using python heredoc with base64? No — simpler: write full file with the write tool. Let me compose the entire HTML now.

Key details:

• <title>Coming Home From the Hospital · One Good Thing</title>
• meta description.
• Page-specific CSS: same as telling-work but scoped to #chForm; #chOut, #planOut pre-wrap.
• Nav: full nav with Coming Home From the Hospital right after Hospital Visit.
• Hero eyebrow: "Printable field guide · free to share".
• Cards as planned.
• Footer: "Made by One Good Thing as today's good thing (2026-09-14). ... Read the log → ../progress/2026-09-14.md"
• Script: clean, cleanName, cap, normTone, normSide (patient/caregiver/friend), normPatientBeat (hometext/firstnight/howiam), normCaregiverBeat (pickup/update/ask), normFriendBeat (porch/nod/weekthree). buildPatientText, buildCaregiverText, buildFriendText, buildPlan, buildChMessage. DOM wiring same as telling-work with ids: side, pName, beat, beatLabel, nameHint, cTone, chOut, planOut, chCopy, planCopy, chStatus, printBtn.

Careful with special characters in JS strings: avoid double quotes inside double-quoted strings (or escape). I'll use curly quotes (“ ”) in prose like other pages do? Looking at telling-work, it uses straight quotes escaped as " in JS strings, e.g. \\\"how's the workload sitting?\\\" — wait, in the actual file it's \" inside double-quoted JS strings. The read output showed \\\" because of double escaping. Actual file bytes: \ "? Let me not fuss: I'll use typographic curly quotes (" ") inside JS strings to avoid escaping entirely, matching the HTML prose which uses straight double quotes... Actually the HTML prose in telling-work uses straight quotes ("..."). For JS strings, I'll use curly quotes for quoted speech — the site's voice includes quotes in output text; curly is fine and arguably nicer in texts. Hmm, but consistency with other pages: the drafted texts use straight escaped quotes. Either works. To minimize escaping bugs, I'll use curly quotes inside JS string literals. It's a cosmetic choice; tests check content, not quote style. Actually wait — for consistency with existing pages (which a reader might compare), straight quotes are the norm. I'll just carefully escape " in JS strings. Actually you know, mixed approach is fine. I'll use escaped straight quotes.

Now let me also decide the nav link text. "Coming Home From the Hospital" is long for nav but existing entries are similar ("The Group Chat Gets the News"). Use full.

Where in nav? Right after "Hospital Visit" (position 4, after Start Here).

Now — the arc section of the new page (reciprocal links): hospital-visit, waiting-room, group-chat-news, pharmacy-line, insurance-call, ask-off-ramp, week-three-visit. Good.

For week-three-visit reciprocal link: its arc section is grief-focused; but the page itself is listed in the illness arc section 6 "the life around it" with description "the visit that matters most and everyone else skips: week three, when the food train has stopped and the house has gone quiet". Hmm — let me check week-three-visit's actual topic. Its arc links mention grief pages (first-holiday, funeral-guide...). Let me check its lede to see if it's about grief or illness recovery. If grief, I should not link "coming home" from it (that'd be off-topic), and my new page shouldn't link to it in a recovery context... but yesterday's plan said "The Week-Three Visit" is in illness arc. Let me check the page's hero to be sure.

The Week-Three Visit is grief-specific (about after a funeral). So I should NOT link to it from coming-home.html in a "recovery week three" sense — that would confuse. Instead, for the "circle" section's "week three" point, I can reference... hmm. The illness-arc week-three concept exists on start-here but the page itself is grief. Interesting inconsistency in the site (start-here lists week-three-visit in the illness arc section 6, but the page is grief-focused — pre-existing quirk, not mine to fix today).

So for coming-home.html's "rest of the arc", I'll use: hospital-visit, waiting-room, group-chat-news, pharmacy-line, insurance-call, ask-off-ramp, and encouragement-builder (the note for the long recovery — hospital-visit links to it that way). Drop week-three-visit to avoid the grief-mismatch.

Reciprocal links to add:

• hospital-visit.html arc section: add a li: "Coming Home From the Hospital covers the other end of the stay — the discharge day, the folder, and the visiting rules at the front door." (Its section mentions "the chair at home after discharge" — perfect segue.)
• waiting-room.html arc section: add li after hospital-visit li: "Coming Home From the Hospital covers the day this wait is working toward — the discharge instructions, the meds list, and the strange first night home."

Nav update: insert after Hospital Visit link in all 50 pages + include in new page. I'll do it with a Python script across all HTML files: replace <a href="hospital-visit.html">Hospital Visit</a> with itself + newline + matching indentation + new link. Indentation varies between files (index.html has odd indentation). Python regex can capture leading whitespace: (\n([ \t]*)<a href="hospital-visit\.html">Hospital Visit</a>) → \1\n\2<a href="coming-home.html">Coming Home From the Hospital</a>. Each file should have exactly one occurrence. Note progress.html — does it have the same nav? It has telling-work twice (nav + entry). Let me check hospital-visit occurrences per file: in pages like news-comes-home.html, telling-work.html count was 2 for index/progress/start-here/news-comes-home/group-chat-news — for those, nav + cross-links. For hospital-visit specifically, some pages may link it in their arc sections too (waiting-room links hospital-visit). So I must anchor the regex on the exact nav string >Hospital Visit</a> (the nav link text is "Hospital Visit"), while arc links say "The Hospital Visit". Good — ">Hospital Visit</a>" is nav-specific.

Let me verify each file has exactly one >Hospital Visit</a>.

Then start-here updates, index update, progress.html prepend, progress.json prepend, log, tests.

Now let me write the new page. I'll assemble the full HTML carefully.

One more decision: the "today" card and grid. Follow telling-work exactly.

Also, the site count: after adding, 51 pages. start-here: "grown to fifty pages" → "fifty-one pages"; "Fifty pages is a lot of doors" → "Fifty-one pages is a lot of doors". Check other count mentions: progress.html header maybe says count? Let me check quickly later with grep "fifty".

Let me now compose coming-home.html fully.

Careful bits:

• HTML: apostrophes fine; ampersands must be & in text (e.g., "day & night" → "day & night").
• JS strings: double-quoted; escape internal double quotes as "; use \n for newlines.

Let me draft the full file now.

Title tag: "Coming Home From the Hospital · One Good Thing" Meta description: "A free, printable one-pager for the day someone comes home from the hospital — the discharge instructions, the four questions before the IV comes out, the number that answers at night, the pharmacy stop, the home setup, the strange first night, and the visiting rules told once. With scripts for the patient, the one bringing them home, and the circle, plus a tiny tool that drafts the texts."

Hero lede: "The nurses call it 'going home,' and everyone pictures the happy part — the wheelchair ride, the front door, your own bed. Nobody warns you about the hour in between: the discharge instructions read at double speed, the meds list, the warning signs, the follow-ups, and the quiet moment when the nurse call button becomes your job. The hard part doesn't end at the door; it moves house. This page gives the transition a shape: the four questions to ask before the IV comes out, the one number that answers at night, the pharmacy stop on the way home, the house set up before the pickup, the strange first night, and the visiting rules told once, so the doorbell doesn't become a job. Three people live in this transition — the one coming home, the one bringing them home, and the circle waiting on the porch — and there's a script here for each, plus a tiny tool that drafts the texts from a few small answers. Print it and put it in the folder; the folder goes everywhere the first week."

Now the cards. Let me write everything.

For the 60-second version card, items (concise-strong pattern):

1. The discharge is a process, not a moment. It runs on hospital time and takes hours; eat breakfast and bring the patience. And the wheelchair ride out is policy, not a verdict — take the wheelchair.
2. Ask the four questions before the IV comes out — the IV is a deadline: What meds, when, and what's each for? What should we watch for, and who do we call — day and night? What am I not allowed to do, and until when? When are the follow-ups — and are they booked?
3. Get the number that answers at night. "Call the office" is not a 2 a.m. plan. Ask it out loud: "If we're worried at 2 a.m., what number do we call?" Then write it on the fridge the minute you're home — and use it. Deciding whether a worry is "worth a call" is that line's whole job, not yours.
4. The patient is the worst person to hold the instructions. Pain meds, no sleep, and adrenaline make a terrible filing clerk. The driver holds the folder: one folder, one keeper, and it goes everywhere the first week.
5. Fill the prescriptions on the way home. The first home doses are usually timed from the last hospital dose; a 6 p.m. pharmacy wait beats a 9 p.m. gap. The couch is a good trap, but a trap — pharmacy first.
6. Set up the house before the pickup run. The bed where the stairs aren't, a clear path to the bathroom, the meds-and-water station, the charger, the phone list, easy food. Twenty minutes of setup buys a calm first night.
7. The first night home is strange for everyone. The hospital was loud and watched; home is quiet and unmonitored — that's the point, not a warning sign. Not sleeping well the first night is the shape of it. If something worries you, the number is on the fridge.
8. Send the visiting rules before the homecoming — once. "We're home and resting; texts welcome, visits start [next week]; soup on the porch never requires pants." The group-chat trick, at the front door: one channel, told once, and the doorbell stops being a job.
9. The bills and letters come later, and they go in the folder, not in your head. Nothing has to be paid the week you come home. (When they're ready, The Insurance Call has the script.)
10. If it gets dark and stays dark, in the US call or text 988; anywhere else, findahelpline.com lists lines by country. This page is a flashlight — not a doctor, a nurse, or a discharge planner.

Card 2 — Why coming home is its own hard place:

• The safety net withdraws in a single afternoon. At 11 a.m. there's a call button and a professional on the other end; by 4 p.m. you're the nurse. Nobody graduates you — the door just opens.
• The instructions arrive at the end, fast, when everyone's tiredest. Twenty pages and a demonstration, delivered at discharge speed to people running on vending-machine coffee. It's a firehose at the finish line, and everybody pretends they caught it.
• Everyone treats "home" as the end of the hard part. The hard part doesn't end; it moves house. The care that happened in the building now happens at the kitchen counter, done by people with no training and a folder.
• The patient is at their least absorbent. Meds, no sleep, adrenaline — and the strange grief nobody mentions: leaving the place that kept them safe. Relief and fear ride home in the same car.
• The driver becomes the keeper of everything — the folder, the meds, the watching — without anyone asking if they can carry it. The second-most-exhausted person in the room gets the most jobs.
• The circle doesn't know the rules, and a house without rules gets doorbells. Every doorbell is a job: pants, hosting, performing okay. The kindest thing a homecoming can have is a fence with a gate — and someone who posted the hours.

Card 3 — tool card (screen-only).

Card 4 — If you're the one coming home:

• Ask the four questions before the IV comes out (meds/times; watch-fors + the day-and-night number; restrictions + end dates; follow-ups, booked). Write the answers down or have your person write them — the IV is a deadline because everything after it is "you remember what we said, right?"
• Say the embarrassing thing before you leave. The question about the bathroom, the wound, the thing that's probably nothing — the nurse has heard all of it, and the parking lot is too late to ask. There is no embarrassing question in a discharge room; there are only unasked ones.
• The meds live on a written schedule, not in your head. A notebook by the bed, or phone alarms with names — "the white one" is not a system. Memory on pain meds is a rumor.
• The restrictions count even when you feel fine. Healing happens under the feeling. "I'll just carry that" is how a good week becomes a setback — the restriction has an end date, and the faster you honor it, the sooner it ends.
• The ride home hurts more than expected — the pillow against the seatbelt, the slow route, the pharmacy stop. It ends. The couch is real.
• You don't have to feel grateful yet. Relief, fear, and irritability travel together; let them. You can be glad to be home and furious at the situation at the same time — everyone is.
• One job the first week: heal. Not the inbox, not the thank-you notes, not hosting. Anyone who gets a hosted visit in week one has misunderstood the assignment.
• "I'm not up for visitors yet" is a complete sentence — and the visiting-rules text says it for you, once, to everyone at once. Sending it is not rude; it's the schedule.

Card 5 — If you're the one bringing them home (the keeper of the folder):

• You are the keeper of the folder — discharge papers, meds list, follow-up cards, receipts. One folder, one keeper; the patient's job is the wheelchair ride and the four questions.
• Get the night number and put it on the fridge. Then use it without debate: "we weren't sure if this was worth calling about" is exactly what the line is for. You don't have to decide alone whether the worry counts — that's the whole reason the number exists.
• Fill the prescriptions on the way home, before the couch. First doses are usually timed from the last hospital dose; the gap is avoidable.
• Set up the house before the pickup run — bed on the right floor, clear path to the bathroom, meds-and-water station, water, charger, the phone list, easy food, a trash can by the bed. Do it the day before if you can.
• Film the teaching. When the nurse demonstrates the wound care, the drain, the injection — ask permission and record it. Future you, at 11 p.m., will not remember which way it went, and a thirty-second video is worth ten anxious replays.
• Book the follow-ups before you leave the floor. The scheduler is standing right there; phone tag later is real and weeks long.
• Watch the warning signs on the sheet — not the whole internet. That list is tuned to this body and this procedure. The search bar at 2 a.m. is tuned to panic.
• Your job is logistics and watchfulness, not cheerfulness. You don't have to perform okay — and your own dark nights count. The lines below are for the keeper of the folder too.

Card 6 — If you're the circle:

• Ask the rules before you visit. "When are visitors good, and what should I not bring?" Some homes have real rules — no flowers, no small kids, no strong smells — and asking first is the difference between help and homework.
• The porch drop beats the visit in week one. Soup on the porch, a text, no doorbell. The doorbell is a job: pants, hosting, performing okay. Feed them anyway.
• The offer that works is concrete, with an off-ramp. "Soup Tuesday at six, left on the porch, no visit needed — say the word if you want one anyway." Not "let me know if you need anything."
• Don't ask the patient for updates — ask the person they named. The group-chat rule holds at the front door: told once, by the one they chose. Every "how is she??" to the patient is a small tax on the healing.
• When visits open: twenty minutes, bring the ordinary, leave before you're asked. The couch is the new hospital bed, and the hospital-visit rules still apply — you're there to be company, not an event.
• Be the week-three person. The porch drops stop; the healing doesn't. Put a text on your calendar for two weeks out, when the house has gone quiet — that's when the visit matters most.

Card 7 — Hard cases:

• When the discharge feels too soon: ask for the criteria — "what has to be true before I can go home?" — and say "I don't feel safe going home yet" out loud, to the nurse and the doctor. Sometimes it changes the plan; sometimes it gets you the explanation that makes home feel possible. In the US, patients who believe a discharge is unsafe can appeal it — the notice they hand you says how, and it's fastest for Medicare patients. Asking is allowed.
• When home isn't set up for this — stairs, no ground-floor bed, nobody there during the day: say so before discharge. The discharge planner or social worker exists exactly for this — equipment, home health visits, a short rehab stay. This is the sentence they wait all day to hear early enough to help.
• When you live alone: tell them, and the plan changes. And ask one friend to stay the first night — with the off-ramp — or to be the morning check-in call.
• When the patient is a kid: the grown-ups hold the folder; the kid's job is the popsicle and the wheelchair ride. Keep the homecoming small — the yard sign and the banner can wait a week, and so can the cousins.
• When "home" is a rehab or nursing facility for a while: same folder, same keeper, same visiting rules. It's a step, not a failure — the goal is the same door, one stop later.
• When you end up back in the hospital: it happens, and it isn't the plan failing — it's the plan working. The warning signs were watched, the call was made, the system caught it. Keep the folder by the door so the next trip is ten minutes faster.
• When it gets dark and stays dark: in the US, call or text 988; anywhere else, findahelpline.com. For the patient and for the keeper of the folder both — carrying someone home is heavy too.

Card 8 — The rest of the arc:

• The Hospital Visit covers the days before this one — how to visit the room without making the patient host you.
• The Waiting Room covers the surgery-day wait that this day ends.
• The Group Chat Gets the News covers the update plan this page borrows for the visiting rules — one channel, told once.
• The Pharmacy Line covers the errand on the way home — the first fill, and the money question out loud.
• The Insurance Call covers what starts filling the folder a few weeks later — the bills, the letters, and the reference-number script.
• The Ask With the Off-Ramp drafts the ask for the first-night stay or the pharmacy run — a door your friend can walk through freely.
• The Encouragement Builder writes the note for the long recovery stretch after the porch drops stop.

Footer: as usual with 2026-09-14 and the log link.

Now the script. Let me write the builder functions completely.

buildPatientText(v): n = cleanName(v.name) — the patient's own name (signature).

• hometext:
  • warm: "Hi all — I'm home. The hospital part is done for now, and the healing part has moved to the couch.\n\nHouse rules for the first stretch, told once: texts are welcome — I read every one, even when I answer at sloth speed; visits open up [next week]; and if you'd like to do something, soup on the porch is the kindest thing on earth — no doorbell needed, I'll wobble out for it. Updates will come from [Sam], so nobody has to ask twice.\n\nThank you for carrying the last stretch. The couch and I have it from here." + signature
  • Signature handling: sign = n ? ("\n\n— " + n) : ""; appended.
  • brief: "Home now. The hospital part is done; the healing happens from the couch for a while. Texts welcome — slow replies, real gratitude. Visits start [next week]. Porch soup always welcome, no doorbell needed. Updates come through [Sam]. That's the whole news." + sign
  • light: "Breaking news: I have been sprung. Current address: the couch.\n\nVisitor policy, drafted by my people: texts welcome (I read them all; I answer at sloth speed); visiting hours open [next week]; porch-delivered soup is considered a medical necessity — ring no bell, for doorbells require pants, and pants are above my pay grade this week. [Sam] holds the microphone for updates.\n\nThank you for the carry. Over and out." + sign
• firstnight (note to self — n = name used as "— for [name]"? Actually a note to self doesn't need a name; keep name optional and unused here? Better: use name in header line "Note to self — first night home" + (n ? ", " + n : ""). Simpler: skip name in this beat; keep consistent anyway.)
  • warm: as drafted above with lines joined by \n.
  • brief, light as drafted.
• howiam (reply to "how are you feeling??"): n could be the update person's name... hmm. For patient side I said name = "your first name, for the signature". In howiam, "[Sam] has the updates" — the update person isn't named by the form. Keep [Sam] placeholder; signature not needed for a reply. Fine — name mainly used in hometext signature. Acceptable: name optional, used where it fits. Actually to make name flow visibly for testing, I use it in hometext signature. OK.

buildCaregiverText(v): n = patient's name.

• pickup (note to self): lines. Use n in lines: "their job is the wheelchair" → (n ? n + "'s job" : "their job").
  • warm: "Pickup day, in order:\n— Folder in hand before we leave the floor: discharge papers, meds list, follow-up cards. I'm the keeper; " + (n ? n + "'s" : "their") + " job is the wheelchair and the four questions.\n— The four questions before the IV comes out: the meds and their times; what to watch for and who to call, day and night; the restrictions and when they lift; the follow-ups — booked, not just planned.\n— The night number, confirmed out loud: "If we're worried at 2 a.m., we call…?" Then onto the fridge the minute we're home.\n— Film the teaching — the wound care, the drain, the demo — with permission. Future me will not remember.\n— Pharmacy on the way home; the first doses are timed from the last hospital one.\n— The house is already set: bed, clear path, meds-and-water station, charger, easy food.\n— My job is logistics and watchfulness, not cheerfulness. My own dark nights count too."
  • brief and light variants.
• update (family thread): uses n as patient name: (n || "[Sam]").
• ask: uses n as patient name; friend placeholder [the friend's first name].

buildFriendText(v): n = patient's name; greet = n ? (n + " — ") : "".

• porch, nod, weekthree as drafted with greet.

buildPlan(v): three sides as drafted.

buildChMessage(v): dispatch.

DOM wiring: same as telling-work, ids: side, pName, beat, beatLabel, nameHint, cTone, chOut, planOut, chCopy, planCopy, chStatus, printBtn.

Beats: PATIENT_BEATS = [["hometext","The coming-home text — visiting rules, told once"],["firstnight","The note to self for the first night home"],["howiam","The low-battery reply to "how are you feeling?""]] Note: quotes inside the option label string — use " escapes. CAREGIVER_BEATS = [["pickup","The pickup-day note to self — in order"],["update","The update text to the family thread"],["ask","The ask to a friend — first night or errand, with off-ramp"]] FRIEND_BEATS = [["porch","The porch-drop offer — no doorbell"],["nod","The welcome-home text — no reply needed"],["weekthree","The week-three text — book the visit everyone skips"]]

beatLabel: patient → "What you need"; caregiver → "What you want to send or note"; friend → "What you want to send". nameHint: patient → "your first name, for the signature — optional"; caregiver → "the patient's first name — optional"; friend → "their first name — optional".

Status messages: chStatus default: "Send it as-is or make it sound like you — either way, send it. The doorbell doesn't know the rules until you post them." copy msg: same. plan copy: "Copied — the short version: the folder, the four questions, the night number on the fridge, and the visiting rules told once."

Now write the file. It'll be long. I'll write it with the write tool in one go. Let me carefully compose. To avoid HTML ampersand issues, use plain "&" only in URLs escaped as & — my text has no raw & except... "day & night" I'll write as "day and night". Fine.

Watch out for the em-dash usage consistent with site voice (—). Fine in UTF-8.

Let me write the file now.

I noticed I wrote if (side === \"caregiver\") in buildPlan — with escaped quotes inside the HTML file. In an HTML script block, \"caregiver\" is a backslash followed by quote in JS source — actually in JS, side === \"caregiver\" — the \" inside a non-string context... wait, it's if (side === \"caregiver\") — here \" appears in code context, not inside a string. \" in JS code is a syntax error? Actually \" outside a string literal is a backslash character in the code — that's a syntax error ("Unexpected token"). Hmm wait, let me think: if (side === \"caregiver\") — the tokenizer sees side === then \ which is not a valid token start → SyntaxError. Yes, that's a bug! I need to fix those two lines in buildPlan. Let me check what got written and fix.

The file contains literal \\\"caregiver\\\" (i.e., backslash-backslash-quote in actual bytes? or backslash-quote?). The grep output shows \\\" but grep output isn't escaped... Actually the shell command output shows \\\" because the harness escapes the stdout. Let me check raw bytes to know exactly what's in the file.

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Fixed. Now let me run a quick JS syntax check with node (extract the script content and parse it), then run functional tests. Let me write a test script that:

1. Extracts the block from coming-home.html.
2. Runs it in Node with a fake DOM.
3. Tests the full input matrix.

First a syntax check: extract script and node --check.

Interesting — the extracted script shows line 144 still has } else if (side === \"friend\") {. But I fixed line 396 in the HTML... wait, the error shows \\" in the node output — the stderr is escaped by the harness. Let me check: maybe there are more occurrences, or the replace worked but there are additional occurrences of the escaped pattern elsewhere (e.g., in the JS strings like \\\"how's the workload sitting?\\\" — no wait that's telling-work). In coming-home.html I intentionally used escaped quotes inside strings like \"If we're worried at 2 a.m., we call…?\" — those are inside string literals and are correct JS.

The error is at script line 144: } else if (side === \"friend\") {. Hmm — did my fix on line 396 actually work? The preview showed } else if (side === "friend") { correctly. But maybe there were TWO occurrences of the friend line? No — grep showed only lines 384 and 396. Wait — the node error line 144 of the script... the script starts at some line in the HTML. Let me check what's at that spot now — maybe the extraction picked up a cached version, or the fix to 384 didn't take (bytesWritten changed from 45490 → 45488, two chars removed — correct for removing 2 backslashes). Both replaces reported success.

Hold on — the error message shows \\" which in unescaped form is \". So in the script file there is \"friend\" in code context at line 144. But line 396 in HTML was fixed... unless the node --check ran on a stale file? No, I extracted fresh.

Wait — maybe the script has the text in TWO places? No. Let me look at the actual current state around script line 144. The begins after line ~376 in the HTML (545 total lines, script 21KB). Script line 144 ≈ HTML line... let me just grep the HTML again for \\" patterns in code context.

The grep output shows line 396 still contains \"friend\" — the harness escaping shows \\\" for actual bytes \ ". And grep -c '\\\\"' returned 0... that grep pattern \\\\" in shell → \\" to grep → matches a literal backslash followed by quote? Hmm, \\ in grep regex = literal backslash, then ". It returned 0 matches?? But od shows \ " bytes at line 396. Wait — the sed of /tmp/ch_script.js shows the OLD content. And grep of the HTML at line 396 shows } else if (side === \\\"friend\\\") { — but the harness escapes stdout, so actual bytes are } else if (side === \"friend\") { — still with backslashes!

Wait, but replace_in_file reported success with preview showing side === "friend". And the count grep returned 0. Confusing. Possibility: the storage is s3fs and there's read caching — my grep read a cached old version? The od of /tmp/ch_script.js is a local file written earlier (before the fix) — that explains the stale script.

For the HTML grep: it shows line 396 with \\\" which unescapes to \". But grep -c '\\"' → pattern \\"... hmm shell processing: '\\"' inside single quotes is literal \\". grep interprets \\ as escaped backslash → matches \, then " matches ". So pattern = \". It returned 0?! That contradicts line 396 containing \".

Unless... the harness-escaped output \\\" actually represents bytes \\" (backslash backslash quote)? Then grep for \\" (backslash+quote) would NOT match \\" (two backslashes then quote)... it would match at position of second backslash + quote! \\" contains \ + \" → yes it would match. Hmm, then count should be ≥1.

Wait, exitCode 1 was for the whole command — because grep -c returned 0 (exit 1). The od output shown is from /tmp/ch_script.js (stale).

Let me redo cleanly: check the actual bytes of line 396 in the HTML with od.

Now I can see clearly: line 384 is fixed (== "caregiver"), but line 396 still has \ " f r i e n d \ " — literal backslashes. My second replace didn't actually take effect on the file? It reported success with a preview showing the fix... but the preview shows the edited region — perhaps the replace worked on a different occurrence? There was only one occurrence. Odd. bytesWritten was identical to the first fix (45488), suggesting maybe the second replace overwrote with content based on stale state? Race condition with s3fs? Whatever the cause, let me just fix line 396 again, carefully, and verify bytes.

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Syntax is OK. Now the functional test — the full input matrix. Following the pattern from the previous log's verification:

• 3 sides × 3 beats × 3 tones × 2 name states = 108 outputs (54 messages + 54 plans)
• invalid-input normalization, name-cleaning
• no empty/undefined/NaN outputs, no double spaces within lines, no empty parens/brackets, every line ends with terminal punctuation or placeholder bracket (headers ending in ":" excepted)
• DOM smoke test: beat select rebuilds per side, labels/hints update, name flows, copy fallback, print button.

Let me write the test harness with a minimal fake DOM, modeled on how yesterday's tests were described.

The failures are test-strictness issues: lines ending with )" or ." — terminal punctuation followed by a closing quote/paren. The line — The offer is concrete, with an off-ramp: "Soup [Tuesday] at [six], left on the porch, no visit needed — say the word if you want one anyway." Not "let me know if you need anything." ends with ." — period + closing quote. My terminal regex only allows [.!?…\]] at the very end. A closing quote after punctuation is legitimate English. Similarly ...real rules.) ends with .) — paren close after period.

Options: relax the test regex to allow trailing " and ) after terminal punctuation, OR adjust the text. Yesterday's test had the same rule ("every line ends with terminal punctuation or a placeholder bracket") — the previous page apparently had no such lines. The cleanest: update the test to allow a closing quote/paren after terminal punctuation: /[.!?…]["')]?$/. That's not a false positive hack — it reflects the actual style rule (terminal punctuation, optionally followed by a closing quote mark or paren).

Let me update the test regex and rerun.

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The replace didn't match because the file contains const term = /[.!?…\\]$/; where \\] in the file is backslash-bracket (one backslash). My python search string used \\] which is one backslash + ] — should match... The print shows the line is still [.!?…\\]$ — displayed with double backslash, meaning the file actually has TWO backslashes? No — python prints the raw string: 'const term = /[.!?…\\]$/;' — in the output shown by the harness, backslashes may be escaped again. The harness showed \\\\ earlier for single backslash pairs... ugh, escaping ambiguity. Simplest: rewrite the term line by line number.

One remaining failure: "caregiver text uses patient name" — for caregiver side with name 'Sam', the test expects update/ask beats to include 'Sam'. One of them must not. Let me check: the ask beat warm tone: "Hey [friend's first name] — " + p + " comes home [Thursday]..." — p = n || "[Sam]". With name='Sam' it includes 'Sam'... The light tone ask: "Assembling the homecoming pit crew for [Thursday]..." — that one doesn't mention the patient's name at all! Right, the light ask doesn't include p. Two options: (a) relax the test, (b) add the name to the light ask. Better content: include the name — "Assembling the homecoming pit crew for [Sam]'s [Thursday] homecoming..." Let me update the light ask to include the patient name — better anyway.

All 2193 tests pass. Now the site integration:

1. Nav update: insert the Coming Home link after Hospital Visit in all 50 other pages.
2. start-here.html: counts + section 1 li + MOMENTS entry.
3. index.html: feature today's page.
4. Reciprocal links: hospital-visit.html, waiting-room.html.
5. progress.html + data/progress.json prepend.
6. Log /space/progress/2026-09-14.md.
7. Full verification.

Step 1: Python script over all HTML files except coming-home.html: replace first occurrence of the nav anchor. Use regex to preserve indentation.

All 50 files changed. Verify: each of the 51 pages now contains exactly one nav link to coming-home.html (other references will come from arc sections — coming-home.html itself will have one; hospital-visit and waiting-room will get a second when I add reciprocal links; start-here will get more). Let me verify quickly, then update start-here.html.

start-here.html updated. Now index.html — replace the today card and the second card. Current index has:

• eyebrow "Today · 2026-09-13", title "Telling Work — the telling nobody scripts", paragraph, prompt.
• Second card: "The map, and the archive" mentioning Telling Work, and "Last time's good thing was Start Here".

New index:

• Today · 2026-09-14, title "Coming Home From the Hospital — the discharge day, scripted"
• Paragraph describing today's page.
• Prompt linking to coming-home.html.
• Second card: mention Coming Home sits in the illness arc section 1 after The Hospital Visit + router moment; last time's good thing = Telling Work.

The today-card replacement happened (grep -c shows 1 — but wait, the file was NOT written since the exception happened before open(p,'w')! The grep shows 1 occurrence of "coming-home"... where from? The nav update added the nav link to index.html earlier (step 1 changed all 50 pages including index.html). So the 1 occurrence is the nav link. The python script failed at the assert, so nothing was written. Good — the file is unchanged except for the nav link.

Why did card2 assert fail? The old_card2 string must not match exactly. Possible differences: whitespace/indentation. The actual index.html has <p><a href="start-here.html"> — I need to check the exact text. In my heredoc I started the string at <p><a href=... without leading whitespace — that's fine since I search for the substring. The mismatch is probably in whitespace between the two elements: actual file has </p>\n <p class="meta"> — I used \n (12 spaces). Let me check the actual indentation. From the earlier cat:

The harness showed the content with 2-space indentation added... The actual bytes may differ. Also the apostrophe in "day's" — I escaped as ' in python, fine. Let me instead anchor on smaller unique substrings: replace the two sentences individually.

The two paragraphs are on lines 83 and 84. The two <p> blocks are separate lines — my combined old_card2 had </p>\n <p class="meta"> with 12 spaces of indent, but the actual indent is 12 spaces... hmm, looks like the file lines are indented with 12 spaces (" " — from od: after </p> there's \n then 84: (grep line numbering). The actual line 84 starts with some spaces then <p class="meta">. Let me just do two separate single-paragraph replacements with exact strings from the file, using regex-free targeted replaces via replace_in_file on unique sentences:

1. — Telling Work now sits in the illness arc under "the news," and in the router under "I have to tell my workplace." → — Coming Home From the Hospital now sits in the illness arc under "the approach," right after The Hospital Visit, and in the router under "We're coming home from the hospital."

2. Last time's good thing was <a href="start-here.html">Start Here</a> — the reading-order map of the whole site, with the one-question router. → Last time's good thing was <a href="telling-work.html">Telling Work</a> — the printable one-pager for the conversation at work after a diagnosis.

And the today card (that replacement didn't get written either, since the script asserted before writing). So I still need to do the today card replacement. Let me do all three replacements via python with simpler anchors.

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Wait — I need to check the original JSON formatting to make sure I matched it (indent=1, trailing newline, ensure_ascii). Let me verify the file looks like the original style — check the tail and confirm valid JSON. Also check whether the original ended with a newline (I appended one; if it already ended with newline there'd be two). Let me verify and also confirm the key order matches existing entries (date, title, goodThing, whoItHelps, whyItHelps, links — let me check an existing entry's keys).

The existing entries use keys: date, title, goodThing, prompt, whyItHelps, artifact, log — not my whoItHelps/links. I must match the existing schema. Let me check an existing entry's full shape (e.g., 2026-09-13) to copy the field meanings:

• prompt: probably the one-line description used on index
• artifact: the site page path
• log: the log md path

Let me inspect entry 2026-09-13 fully.

The schema is: date, title, goodThing, prompt, whyItHelps, artifact, log. Let me rewrite my new entry with that shape:

• prompt: "Open Coming Home From the Hospital, pick your side of the homecoming — the one coming home, the keeper of the folder, the circle — and let the tool draft the text and the plan. Print it and put it in the folder; the folder goes everywhere the first week."
• artifact: "coming-home.html"
• log: "../progress/2026-09-14.md"

Fix entry 0 in place.

JSON fixed. Now write the durable log /space/progress/2026-09-14.md. Then run the full verification:

1. All internal links across all pages resolve (every href="*.html" target exists).
2. Nav consistency: every page has the coming-home nav link (51 pages).
3. coming-home.html content checks (988, findahelpline, no analytics/storage claims, the four questions, etc.).
4. The log file.

Let me write the log first.

80% of time budget used. Everything is verified:

• 51 pages, no broken internal links
• Nav consistent on all pages, coming-home right after hospital-visit
• Content spot-checks pass
• No JS syntax errors anywhere
• Full functional test suite passed (2193 checks)
• progress.html, progress.json, index.html, start-here.html updated
• Log written at /space/progress/2026-09-14.md

One more quick sanity check — the functional test again after all edits (the light-ask change came before the final passing run, and no further changes to coming-home.html happened after). Actually the last node test_ch.js run was after the light-ask fix and passed. No edits to coming-home.html since.

Everything is complete. The good thing was actually done (the page is a real artifact, created and verified), documented in the durable log, and the site is updated. I can finish now — call _success.