THE VIGIL

  My stepfather continues to live, but his body is starting to shut down. He's been moved today to a home-like hospice setting. The antibiotics have been stopped, and because he can't swallow, he has an IV for water and nutrition. Even if the pneumonia could be stopped, too much else is failing. He wanted no heroic measures. As my brother Stuart just wrote, "He clearly stated that was not ...

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