Visiting My Sick Mom Could Put Her Life at Greater Risk. But How Many More Times Will I Get to See Her?
Friends, including those who work in public health, now seem torn when I poll them on what they would do in my place. If I’m leaning one way or the other, whoever I’m talking with will say, “That’sthe right decision,” and I might agree—until I start second-guessing myself again. Maybe everyone is just being kind, telling me what they imagine I want to hear, even though we all know that my mother and I have absolutely no good options at the moment.
I try to keep the worst of my anxiety from my mother, because God knows she has enough to deal with, but she’s aware that I’m wrestling with this. As of last week, she still wanted me to come out soon and bring the kids. But she’s also following the news, if not quite as obsessively as I am, and when I talk to her now, she sounds less certain. A typical mom, she’s worried for me, too—and her grandkids—even though we aren’t terribly at risk.
It seems we’re all afraid in this moment; it’s hard not to be. I’m afraid of so many things, especially the suffering of people I love and a world without my mom. Even after my father died, I assumed my mother would live to see my hair turn gray, my kids grow up. It’s devastating to know that this is happening to her, that I will lose her far earlier than I’d ever imagined.
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