They endure taunts and resentment at school because they get more attention from the school nurse, and get to eat snacks in class. If the other kids knew what I now know, they'd consider going without snacks a privilege. And having gone through it, I genuinely don't understand why. I got a lot more than I gave. I received free medical education.
Nothing is brain surgery except brain surgery.
Sure, I stayed in a bunk house, and no, it wasn't a second honeymoon with my wife. But I stayed a week in the breath-taking Texas Hill Country, rent free, with air conditioning and hot and cold running water. I tried archery for the first time. The lessons were free. I spent one night by a campfire under the stars, on top of a genuine Hill Country hill.