During this time, my mom didn’t leave the house much, except for her countless doctor appointments and lengthy gambling episodes. No one ever used it or thought about it but for some reason, I knew in this moment that it wasn’t there anymore. This time, I answered their house phone only to find a state trooper on the line calling about my mom. It was this time that I was pretty sure she was really going to die. I spent years so worried about what was going on with my mom that I never really reflected on how it was affecting me.

Source: Huffington Post January 01, 2018 03:22 UTC