Four for Dad
Apr 27, 2020
3 minutes
BY KAREN MALENA MONROEVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA
ILLUSTRATION BY JOE ANDERSON
I DROVE TO THE hospital, knowing that today might be the last day I’d spend with my father on this earth. He was my rock, my strength, even while he grew weaker. How could I tell him goodbye?
We knew that dad’s gall bladder surgery was risky at the age of 85, especially after a previous heart surgery. He survived the operation, but complications followed, and
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