THIS IS US
A Midlife Reckoning With Childhood Trauma
When unprocessed grief rears its head
Published in
6 min readMar 13, 2022
I am two months shy of my fifth birthday when my father dies. He has been ill throughout my childhood, his kidneys failing after a childhood illness ravaged them. He has been on dialysis as he’s awaited a new kidney, but he dies before one becomes available. He is 36.
