2026 - 002 Musing | Maintenance Medicine

It was the vividness that was impressed on me first. I saw her halving the tablets with a knife on the table top of her sewing machine. She mumbled about making it last and prioritizing patriarch’s medicine first. She said my father would burst in anger if he saw his own supply started to dwindle. The younger me, already in late teens was always slow on the uptake, so I just watched her, barely…