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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 605416" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>To Janet: You were in a similar situation to me. When my mother got brain cancer, she lived in Illinois by my sister. She loved my sister and her kids and had never even met my three youngest kids and wouldn't call me on the phone for ten years, although I made honest attempts at reconciliation. I felt that, all things considered, my sister and brother could look after her. If I'd gotten sick, she wouldn't even have visited me. In fact, when I did have surgery, she didn't visit me. She was vile to me and my children. I could handle her being vile to me, but not the kids. She wouldn't even send a birthday card to the two children of mine that she had known for about ten years.</p><p></p><p>I had to seriously think about whether or not to attend her funeral since we hadn't even seen one another for over ten years due to her wishes. I did go, but mostly to comfort the grieving. When I think of her now, it's about somebody I don't know who didn't know me...and didn't want to bridge that gap. I feel sad that she wouldn't allow it to be different in her later years.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 605416, member: 1550"] To Janet: You were in a similar situation to me. When my mother got brain cancer, she lived in Illinois by my sister. She loved my sister and her kids and had never even met my three youngest kids and wouldn't call me on the phone for ten years, although I made honest attempts at reconciliation. I felt that, all things considered, my sister and brother could look after her. If I'd gotten sick, she wouldn't even have visited me. In fact, when I did have surgery, she didn't visit me. She was vile to me and my children. I could handle her being vile to me, but not the kids. She wouldn't even send a birthday card to the two children of mine that she had known for about ten years. I had to seriously think about whether or not to attend her funeral since we hadn't even seen one another for over ten years due to her wishes. I did go, but mostly to comfort the grieving. When I think of her now, it's about somebody I don't know who didn't know me...and didn't want to bridge that gap. I feel sad that she wouldn't allow it to be different in her later years. [/QUOTE]
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