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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🙋🌞 me too ..it was totally
self serving
Far be it from me or anyone else to judge this woman. Try walking in her shoes facing the most horrific thing imaginable as a parent. A single one at that without the support of a husband. Obviously she realized her own metal health and being were cascading in the pits of hell. You can bet that on her death bed it will be her daughter and these times in her life she will be thinking most about.
My wife and I are caring for her mother (88) and my father (92) in our home. My mother was with us but she died in 2021.
Our last family vacation was 2015.
Sorry lady, be grateful your daughter rec’d great care at CHOP.
It’s all about ME. Nothing to live for nor die for, but the desire to be happy takes precedence.
My wife’s mom is living with us, and I consider that a blessing. Sad thing that old folks are considered disposable in this modern world.
Sounds like the kind of gal who celebrates abortions.
I’m going to say you are a wonderful unselfish person. I took care of my father for years in a row like that myself and now right after Dad my wife is battling cancer. We are fortunate to have our kids close by to help.
But it is hard to fathom how much of a toll it really does take on the caregivers. They have to give up their whole lives and careers and be dedicated 24-7. It would be selfish to not recognize this reality and not in turn appreciate and care about those dedicating their lives to care for you.
It is good of you to see, appreciate, and understand the fact your husband is being unselfish himself. So many just selfishly ditch the responsibility and put loved ones in a facility rather than share their own personal effort and time. It is good you think of him as much as he is thinking of you... God is smiling on you both.
You have it backwards. Her husband is caring for her and she is unselfish enough to understand and appreciate his dedicated unselfishness.
Well. Isn't that special. Everything about her you need to know is right there.
She and Noem should collaborate on a new book, “Stories NOT To Publish”.
“You can bet that on her death bed it will be her daughter and these times in her life she will be thinking most about.”
And her daughter won’t be there. She’ll be on vacation in Machu Pichu.
That’s why we were given the Sabbath. Put all non-essential tasks aside and spiritually and physically renew.
The daughter was probably better off with mom as far away as possible. Her grandmother stayed with her, which is the case when many Millennials and Gen Z abandon their children.
Ahh ok. Yes we should be grateful for our caregivers. My sister and mother were God sends during my leukemia.
I think at one point or another most all of us have been caregivers to someone.
Regarding this woman - The difference here is this was her very young daughter (not a full grown adult) and she left about 4 months after her diagnosis. It hadn’t even been that long.
Yeah, OK.
That poor child, with an alcoholic narcissist mom.
If only she had kept her mouth shut about her vacation, instead of monetizing her daughter's cancer by shopping a book manuscript around.
While what you write is true-ish, it is her shameless self-congratulation over taking not just a break, but a 3,000-mile-away sojourn in a world beauty spot, doubtless at considerable expense despite her child's medical bills and her student loans, that other freepers are steamed about. No wonder she was a "single mother," if this is any example of her fellow-feeling.
And from the sound of things, she probably milked every taxpayer- and charity-funded option out there to take care of the bills.
Point well taken. No disagreement here.
Actually she had her mother step in while she was gone
Unbelievable, go on a vacation while your child, virtually, at death’s door.
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