“I need to report my father’s death.“ It seemed surreal, but there I sat on my parents’ couch two days after my father had passed away, uttering those words to a Veterans Affairs representative. At the direction and advice of my dad’s health team’s social worker, I made the call and followed the prompts until […]
grief
I Miss My Papi
As my father’s dementia has progressed over the last 10+ years, more and more parts of the man I grew up with and once knew have slowly (and sometimes rapidly) faded away. There’s no denying that both physically and mentally, my papi is different. To look at him now, one would not recognize him to […]
