A bit concerned...

Or suffering from 'nostalgitis'... dunno which...

Point being that the last email I've had from my mum was almost a week ago; I replied a couple of days ago and I still haven't heard a peep from her. That's actually quite unusual -- she usually responds right away... So I'm starting to feel the absence, even starting to worry a little. It's probably a computer/internet-related thing. Their server might be down, or some idiotic spamer has bogged it down with large files or something. It wouldn't be the first time stuff like that hindered our correspondence.

Then again, there's the whole issue with my grandma... How, even though she's relatively healthy for her age (92), her disposition is beyond sour and sometimes borders on rude. Sometimes, she also gets really confused, and there's the whole progressive loss of hearing and sight... It breaks my heart to think about it, but there's nothing I can do to help. Not from two countries away, and certainly, not even if I lived in the same country. Aging is aging. Then there's her frustration at feeling trapped in her aging body and her disgust at having to be in a 'home' ... She lashes out against everyone and my poor mother has been having to put up with a lot of abuse lately.

So... I'm worried now that I haven't heard a thing from home in a few days...

I can only hope everything's ok.

I'll probably have to give them a call today after work, if I don't hear anything via email...