The piece "The Sound Remembered," was written during a “Quick Writes” narrative writing seminar offered in Colorado during the fall of 2012. As a writer, having written many stories and poems, I never had the opportunity to think about doing a narrative piece as it related to medicine. Adding to the challenge was following the narrative competency of Rita Charon as presented by Dr Tom Janisse, where the writer uses “the ability to acknowledge, absorb, interpret, and act upon the plight and story of another person.”  Then following Dr Janisse’s practical method of enhancing narrative competency by writing for 10 straight minutes and once started not lifting your pen off the paper, forgetting all editing, judgment grammar and spelling. "The Sound Remembered" is the raw product from this exercise that was my first step into the journey of narrative writing.