That’s the one.
He was right. That’s the part I have had five years to sand down and it hasn’t sanded down.
I could not have taken it in March of 2025. If my son had said to me, in that bed, Mom, I think this is going to kill me — I would have fallen apart in front of him, and then he’d have had to manage me, and he knew it, and he spared me.
A seventeen-year-old did my job for fourteen months because I couldn’t.
So if there is somebody in your life who is sick, and you have decided that the way you help them is by being certain in front of them — I need you to understand what that actually buys. It doesn’t buy them hope. They already know what’s happening; they read the portal on their phone at two in the morning like everybody does.
