Gold, Jerry, gold.
I can’t read this. She complained about leg pain!
I had aml leukemia and a stem cell transplant. I saw first hand the selfishness of people. I’m so glad my family were not on that list. This woman makes me ill.
Reading this made me sick to my stomach.
Elizabeth Austin: Worst. Mother. Ever (as Comic Book 📕 Guy from “The Simpsons” would say).
She sounds like she’d be saying “I deserve to be happy” as a mantra whenever things go slightly wrong.
As expected, from the “about the author”:
She is currently querying her first book, a memoir about the highs and lows of solo-parenting during her daughter’s leukemia treatment. She holds an M.F.A. from Vermont College of Fine Arts and lives in Bucks County, Pennsylvania with her two children and their many animals.
Such a wonderful person.
Truly.
Most people would read her writings and as a first impulse, condemn her for going on a vacation without her very sick child. I do not condemn her. She said it’s only for a week.
This seems to be her way of trying to balance the weight of a parent’s duty to endure with the need to feel some form of relief, albeit temporary.
She apparently has no husband or partner to share these duties with, only her mother.
She probably feels her time in Ireland is ‘stolen joy’, but it’s not. All of us benefit from taking respite, taking some time to maintain yourself as a person. It’s only human.
Listen to people. They will tell you all about themselves without even asking
If she was my daughter, I would have given up everything to help her.
A democrat no doubt.
I can understand about needing some pressure relief from something like this.
However, if it were me, I wouldn’t have been able to enjoy said week long vacation much at all.
Maybe taking a day at home once a week to rest and recover, if the child was otherwise stable. If sue had actually made a routine in which she looked after herself and built that inot the schedule, she wouldn’t have gotten to a breaking point like this.
so much for that whole motherly instinct thingy...
What a selfish skank. Single mom, literally all the support that sick daughter on chemo has... and she takes a mental health vacay to Ireland. And she brags about it?
Utterly unreal.
Some people don’t deserve to have children and she’s one of them. Anyway for anyone out there with cancer here’s an important video from Rogue Scientist that would be of interest to you.
They Beat Cancer with Dog Dewormer!? And it’s based on Scientific Evidence?!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahBab4YSPX8
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
Meeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!