My Boss Refused My Leave — Then I Walked In Holding This

I asked for five urgent days off because my son was in the ICU. My boss refused, reminding me coldly to “separate work from private life.” So the next morning, exhausted and desperate, I walked into the office pushing my son’s hospital bed—IVs, monitors, and a nurse beside me. The entire room froze. I parked the bed directly in front of my boss’s office and said, “You told me to separate work and private life. So I brought both. Let’s work.”