When Mom canceled our weekly family dinner with a short, cold text, my brother and I knew something was terribly wrong. What we discovered when we rushed to her house changed everything we thought we knew about our family.
My mom has always been the glue holding our family together. Even more so after Dad passed away three years ago.
Losing him hit all of us hard, but Mom took it the worst. She’d been with him for 32 years, and watching her try to figure out how to live without her best friend broke my heart.
That’s why my brother Brian and I made a pact. We wouldn’t let her feel alone.