Documenting My Parents’ Decline

Am I building a spreadsheet of medical appointments and notes to remind myself later that I did my best?

Sarah Stankorb
Human Parts
Published in
4 min readApr 29, 2022

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Photo by Christin Hume on Unsplash

My parents have been experiencing a precipitous decline in health since last summer. Surely, some of it was decline that I missed during time apart before Covid vaccines allowed us to begin visiting again. But in recent months I’ve…

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Sarah Stankorb
Human Parts

Sarah Stankorb has published with The Washington Post, Marie Claire, Glamour, O, and The Atlantic (among others). @sarahstankorb www.sarahstankorb.com