Death Watch

Steve Russell
10 min readNov 30, 2019
Death Valley Sunset from Pixabay

This dispatch comes from my mother’s hospice room.

Earlier today, she told my wife that she expects to walk on in the next 24 hours and she would like somebody to sit with her. So my wife took the first shift and I’m here for the second.

This little death watch diary will have to be today’s contribution to Medium. No dog story; no Trump story…but I repeat myself.

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Steve Russell

Enrolled Cherokee, 9th grade dropout, retired judge, associate professor emeritus, and (so far) cancer survivor. Memoir: Lighting the Fire (Miniver Press 2020)