The Satellite Son and the Cane Son: When Money Can’t Carry Grief

shocked.

And I realized most people have never heard a caregiver say that out loud.

Because it’s taboo.

Because it sounds cruel if you’ve never lived it.

But what he meant—what I could finally hear—was:

Sometimes I wished the suffering would stop.
Sometimes I wished the terror would stop.
Sometimes I wished the screaming would stop.
Sometimes I wished my mother continue reading …