*Want to read the whole essay as well as other locked posts? Start a paid subscription for only $30/year. I reference my essay about my father called “Death.” To read National Book Award winning author Sherman Alexie’s poem inspired by my essay, CLICK HERE.
My father has been in the hospital—with stage 4 skin cancer, three types of Pneumonia, Sepsis, Staph infection, etc—for 17 days as of now, Thursday, April 20th, 2023. I wrote an uncomfortable sort of epitaph/coda to/for him a week-and-a-half ago because we were certain (my mother and I) he wouldn’t survive this infection, not with all he’s got going on, at age almost 77.
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