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.
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.
I couldn’t help but notice she wasn’t the one suffering from cancer.