Stayin’ Alive

(Without Spending Every Spare Minute at the Doctor’s Office)

Eileen Pollack
Human Parts

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Photo by Abby Anaday on Unsplash

Oh, how I mocked my parents for filling their calendar with every medical appointment known to humankind! What was the point of living if every minute was consumed with trying to go on living? And what could be more fitting than reaching my parents’ age and finding myself caught in the same conundrum?

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Eileen Pollack
Human Parts

Eileen is the author, most recently, of Maybe It's Me: On Being the Wrong Kind of Woman