“Unraveling Desires and Dread: A Deep Dive into Casey Mulligan Walsh’s ‘The Full Catastrophe'”
Perhaps it’s the narrator’s belief that death is “the only outcome that has ever made sense,” or perhaps it’s her motherly intuition — an inexplicable knowing that “it might all lead to this,” but when it comes to Eric, she describes living with a “vague sense of doom…[with] visions of him dropping…[with] voices in my head…that wake me up at night.” Somehow, strangely — she’s been preparing for this moment since her very first loss.
“They don’t understand — how can they?” Walsh writes of the well-meaning nurses who treat her like some fragile thing she’s not. “They may never grasp how fully I understand this loss…[this] oddly inevitable…farewell,” she says, adding, “I was already planning the funeral while Eric was still in the womb.”
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