“Where’s my dad?” I said to the nurse in the Cardiac ICU. “He should be out by now.” ...
My grandmother, whom everyone called Mom, sat hunched in a kitchen chair, the lump on her back fr ...
My wife, Sandra, and I were caring for Florence, my mother-in-law. I was feeling helpless and fru ...
“What if Mike and I get into an accident?” I asked my friend Julie over the phone. ...
From the spot at the pulleys at my physical therapy facility, I watched transfixed as the woman m ...
There was a wall between my father-in-law, Dale, and me. A former Army officer, Dale was used to ...
My mother, her body ravaged by pancreatic cancer, wanted to come home to die. Instead of a steril ...
It was 3:00 pm, and I was anxious. The doctor still hadn’t sent an important prescription to th ...
Radiation hadn’t helped. Before the surgeon removed the cancer in Dad’s throat, the family st ...
My husband Jerry’s ability to communicate gradually diminished as his dementia progressed. It b ...
The heat of her house? Stifling. The dust? Impenetrable. The creaking and groaning of floors? A t ...