THIS is why I talk about my mom & dad so much... I was not in town when my mother or my father passed away, which makes it even harder to accept and deal with. Mom & I really started to reconnect again as mother & son when she passed in early 2000's. Dad & I didn't quite get that far but that was another situation. I would do absolutely ANYTHING for 5 more minutes with them both to tell them in person how much I LOVE them!
@brainwise I got to see my mother a few months before she passed from cancer, but she wasn't the same person by that time with the morphine drip... but never got to even say I miss you or I love you to my father before he suddenly passed from dementia