“She took the children with her.”
I didn’t say she did not take her children with her. However, after over a year of campaigning, with their parents absent quite a bit of the time, and their father suffering from the hospitalizations and the results from the stroke, to be taken on a road trip when they need reassurance and stability seems a bit irresponsible to me.
Having spent the past two years helping manage my mother’s hospitalizations and end-of-life care, I realize how important it is for a spouse or trusted family member to be in personal contact with both the physicians and the hospitalized family member. I can’t recall the number of times, a nurse or physician almost screwed up in my mother’s care, by not paying attention to medical issues that were contradictory to the prescription or treatment they were poised to prescribe to her.
Thankfully, my siblings and I were able to adjust our schedules (a shared Excel spreadsheet as to free times was a literal life-saver), so that one of use was available to be with her at all times. Escaping is not a successful solution and can, in fact, be detrimental to all involved. Those children deserve better from their parents.
Yes...you are correct about managing hospital, medical care for a loved one...24 hrs a day is best.