I turned 40 recently. My mom, who has dementia, was crying because she forgot to say happy birthday or get me a card. Then she found a card in a drawer and wrote what I consider to be a very morbid birthday message in it, and gave it to me while crying. (I won't share what she wrote, but it was the way it was written with such finality, as if she were about to drop dead - or as if she's afraid that in a year's time she won't know who I am anymore - that upset me.)
Turning 40
Turning 40
Turning 40
I turned 40 recently. My mom, who has dementia, was crying because she forgot to say happy birthday or get me a card. Then she found a card in a drawer and wrote what I consider to be a very morbid birthday message in it, and gave it to me while crying. (I won't share what she wrote, but it was the way it was written with such finality, as if she were about to drop dead - or as if she's afraid that in a year's time she won't know who I am anymore - that upset me.)