Can confirm, get’n old sucks. I was caretaker for my both my mom and stepdad. Bought a house third door down from them so I could. They both came down with brain cancer. It was a long hard three years watching them decline. Glad I was able to do it for them, but it took a lot out of me. Glad your mom has a place to care for her and you are spared, not the trouble, but the witnessing and brutality of, for lack of better words, life in decay of someone you love on a daily basis. It’s heartbreaking. They literally become as helpless as a baby.
Reminds me of the scene in Grumpy Old Men that went something like this -
You hear Jack died?
No, how’d he go?
Died in his sleep.
That motherfucker.
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