Category: Health care
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26. A Farewell via WhatsApp
Most text messages are as disposable as recorded chatter. Yet I do not set a default timer on all of mine. I am particularly grateful that my recent text message exchange with an old friend was not automatically deleted. S. (otherwise anonymous herein) and I first met at university in Atlantic Canada in 1971. He…
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23. A Closer Look at MAiD
A few months ago, I was reprimanded by an old friend for an offhand comment about medical assistance in dying. In our chat at a Vancouver café, he had mentioned he was helping another friend with an application for that legal process known in Canada by its acronym–– MAiD. His friend was slipping into dementia.…
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21. Of an Approaching Expiry Date
When I turned seventy-fourth a few months ago, I received a video of three of my little grandkids singing “happy birthday.” Even though they stood a little stiffly and were urged on by their mom whispering in the background, I was touched. After the chorus, my daughter pointed her iPhone cam at each in turn…
Coprolites in Amber (etc.) 