longterm

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Matthew Willsey, a neurosurgeon who specializes in brain-computer interfaces. It has been edited for length and clarity.Before I became a neurosurgeon, I was an electrical engineer.I graduated from MIT with my undergraduate degree and pursued my master’s in electrical engineering. I…

I’m 31, and my mom will be 70 this year. We haven’t had the talk yet — the conversation about what our lives will look like when she retires. To make this more complex, I’m an only child, and we live in different continents. She has often joked that I…

When I found myself on a first-name basis with the local paramedics, I knew I needed to face the truth: my dad couldn’t continue living at home. It was only a matter of time before the minor emergencies that the EMTs were responding to became something major. Loading audio narration……