The Last Exile

This weekend other than my mother has spent the last two weeks seriously ill in hospital. After a lifetime of no one paying much attention to what she says, her sisters decided they would honour her wishes for a change and not tell me she was so ill – as in life and death ill. I’ve tried frantically to get a hold of her for the last two weeks and finally the mystery was solved. I agree that I couldn’t have done ‘any’ to help her condition, and yes, I am dealing with serious health issues on the home front, but still, she is my mother. And she wonders why I prefer my father’s family – they would have told me.