Posted on 05/02/2024 9:09:10 PM PDT by Kenny Bania
Everything crumbled within the first few months. I couldn’t keep up with pandemic e-schooling, solo parenting, full-time remote work, and cancer treatment. I monitored meds, negotiated claims with the insurance company, filled out assistance paperwork, ignored the dishes in the sink, but every time I checked one line off my list a dozen more filled its place. By the time an alert for a cheap flight to Ireland hit my inbox, we’d spent hundreds of days in the hospital.
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That’s exactly what she should have done. Of course caregivers need time. But, a week in Ireland? And then writing an article about ‘poor me’ while her young child is in the hospital with leukemia?
Unfathomable she would admit to the selfishness and narcissism.
She’s horrible. Her daughter now has the extra burden to read of her mother’s struggle she caused her because she almost died from cancer. The burden she was to her mother. Take a day, but a week? And then write about it. I’m an adult and the betrayal of something like that would be deep rooted.
Oh my.
This is the most self-absorbed thing I have EVER read in my life.
This HAS to be AI, no actual human being could possibly be THIS self-absorbed. Could they?
I can understand how, after a protracted illness, caregivers start to break under the pressure.
My husband has been tremendous supporting me through my failing health. I encourage him to get out of the house, go fishing, go shooting, get away instead of being stuck with me. His life is reduced to work, chores, and tending to me.
After hundreds of days, one must step back and recharge.
Even God rested on the 7th day.
The mother goes on and on about how hard she's worked, all she's done for her daughter, how much she's suffering, how her daughter's pain is always on her mind, yada, yada.
I worked nights and as much overtime as I could get to put my daughter through college
Oh did I mention I was in my sixties
Your husband is a full grown man. Her daughter looked to be about 10.
I’d hope you never write an article about how awful his illness made your life and then published it.
And her leg pain.
Sounds like my mom. “I do and do and do for you and this is the thanks I get.”
Of course I was 10 and left my muddy clothes in a pile to go back out and play. Or instead of doing chores- lighting the leaf pile on fire next to the garage, or....
Meeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We went out for short drives when she was feeling better. We cooked meals together. We watched our favorite TV shows and movies.
She fortunately had great insurance so the paperwork was mostly a breeze, and no arguing with doctors. But it was still costly and sad to see her wither away.
No need to go off to Ireland. We had already done that when she was much healthier. Those memories probably helped her in her final days.
I couldn’t help but notice she wasn’t the one suffering from cancer.
But she *felt* the cancer weeeeighing her dooooown so she laid in the grass of Ireland and breathed in..
Paraphrase, slightly.
But not by much.
She wrote it towards the bottom of the “article”.
Her exact words are:
“I wanted to feel bound by nothing, but knew I was moored by more than gravity. Cancer pulled at my limbs, holding me fast to the earth. I didn’t want my story to end here, on the Cliffs of Moher. I only knew I wanted something different than what I’d left behind.”
Comes across as a narcissist.
I feel sorry for her two kids and any animals they have.
Agree, Yes, I along with one of my brothers were the primary care givers for our Dad and Mom, sure its tough, that is what life is about some times. But both my sisters, one lived with them and another much closer than I , would not do a thing because it was “too much for them”, not fun. They are both single and I’m married with 4 kids but this is what the woke world teaches single women these days-go with your feelings, it is no suprise that single women are the largest voting block for Biden (behind African Ameircans
Was the local park too far away??
Did her daughter survive in spite of this selfish woman? Good grief! That poor child. I hope and pray the daughter does live and at age 16 emancipates from that horrible, horrible person.
So true. Self-centered jerk.
Her writing is completely sappy and self-serving, an ode to her narcissism. “Me, me, me, how I deserve a week in Ireland because my daughter is suffering, how I sacrificed enough for her, blah, blah, blah.” May the Lord be with her daughter throughout this trial and may her mother repent of her epic selfishness.
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