Mortality

[mbarrick]

My mom's heart is starting to act up a bit. She's on beta blockers for hypertension now. She's just turned 71 so this isn't exactly something unusual. It's not like she is going to keel over tomorrow. But my sister is bugging me to go back to the island to visit. I can't afford it right now. I think she may be so insistent out of guilt about what happened when my dad was sick. She phoned me to tell me he was in the hospital and probably not going to make it. I was all ready to bail on work and come over and see him and she phoned again to say that he was up and around and looking OK so it wasn't so urgent. I didn't go over and he died that night.