She was extremely healthy until she wasn’t.
Had some symptoms but tried to treat those herself.
I can understand that from a person who led a healthy lifestyle and was probably rarely sick and when she was she threw it off in couple of days.
The shame is they had tremendous wealth and could have hired help to look after him which in this case could have got her attention before she could no longer help herself.
In my own family I’ve seen the caregiver mentality that is hesitant to admit the caregiver is harming their own physical and mental well being by trying to go it alone.
Every point you made is so true.