THE WIND PHONE

My Mother Has Paid a Huge Price for Living Too Long

Life is expensive

Christine Schoenwald
Published in
3 min readJan 4, 2024

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A grey-haired woman holding a sweater up to her face to dry her tears.
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“Your mom didn’t want to get up today,” her caregiver told me.

I thought it was an odd thing to say. My mother’s been bedridden for some time now and hasn’t gotten up in months. She hasn’t even left her house for over a year.

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Christine Schoenwald
The Wind Phone

Writer for The Los Angeles Times, Salon, Next Avenue, Business Insider, and Your Tango Christineschoenwaldwriter.com