Remember That Hearing Continues

Alicia M. Napierkowski
4 min readOct 23, 2017

Remember that hearing continues. I read it in “the hospice book” as I’ve been calling it. I can visualize the table of contents with my eyes closed. So when the nurse came over last Friday and sat me down at our family dinner table to tell me my Dad will become less responsive as they increase his medication, I said, “okay, thank you.” When she asked if I had any questions, I said, “no, I’ve read the book.”

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Alicia M. Napierkowski

journalist, reporter, & copywriter. columnist, NYTimes On The Market. words in The New York Times, Teen Vogue, & more. alicia.napierkowski@gmail.com