Do you know what's upsetting?
Getting a call from your husband letting you know that your mommy has been taken to the emergency room is upsetting.
Getting to the ER and seeing your mommy looking very old and frail and miserable is even more upsetting.
Finding out that she hasn't been taking her blood pressure medication because she couldn't afford it, and knowing that you and your siblings could have taken care of that for her if she had only said something is also pretty damn upsetting.
But the most upsetting thing is being confronted with the fact that your mommy--the rock you've depended on for so many years, way past the point that you should have stopped doing so--has an expiration date.
I don't want my mommy to expire.
She's going to be taking her medication from now on.
2 comments:
Man, I'm sorry that your mom isn't doing so well. On the plus side, she's got you and your sibs and the sibs in law to help keep an eye on her now. I'm sure she'll be around for a lot of years yet.
Hugs.
She better be. I think this was, at least, a good wakeup call for her--for all of us--that she needs to stop trying so hard to take care of all of us and let us start taking care of her.
Thanks. *hugs*
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