I don't envy RP's next-younger sister Rhonda. She's the one who stayed in her hometown while all the other sibs moved to bigger cities. So when their parents need care she gets stuck with a lot of the work.
Well, last Friday, RP's mom went into the hospital with pneumonia, and today RP's dad went into the hospital with a whole sequence of ailments. (He's at the stage of life where he stays healthy only by a delicate and precarious balance of meds, and if he misses a dose he suffers for a week. Same as with my dad, only probably worse.)
Neither situation is life-threatening, but we fret anyway. RP's mom has contracted iatrogenic illnesses before.
RP considered going home, but fortunately another sister--the one who came to help RP and me for a week when he broke his leg--is going, so RP feels better about staying here.
I wouldn't begrudge him going if he needed to, but Kathy's great in these situations; you couldn't ask for a more generous and helpful sister-in-law.
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