Miracle of miracles

So the two weeks of an ill mother in law has resolved into something that really had an entirely different outcome. I had mentioned somewhere before, that she was somewhat distrustful. The depths of that distrust was actually revealed in the last two weeks, wow, what a view. It was like looking in to the abyss, dark and forboding. She has not lead her life as somewhat distrustful, but rather as absolutely distrustful, she trusted no one . And she got to age 87 in that way. But it was that distrust that almost did her in. She has for the last 15 months been declining in her physical health. Cognitively she remains sharp and cogent. Despite frequent visits to the Doctors and "getting a handle" on her medical conditions and going through prescription changes she steadily declined. But what we found out is that 10 years back she was diagnosed as Type II diabetic, but 10 years ago she eschewed the advices of a local endrochronologist. It was only through a coicidence that this was revealed. For my wife took her for an appointment with a doctor, who immediately said, Oh, I remember you, you were here 10 years ago and you told me that you did not want to listen or treat. It was true, her distrust of a Doctor lead her off on a 10 year cycle of health issues. Renal failure, congestive heart failure, edema that grotesquely distorted her legs into elephantine appendages. Failure to trust the judgment of another doctor lead her to not have knee replacement surgery 10 or 12 years ago, which resulted in her being almost immobile over the course of the last 8. She could get to her car, and she could walk in her yard briefly and she could hide it from her family by always sitting at functions or holidays. But the true level of her distrust was revealed in her reaction to the efforts of her children to try and keep her alive for a few more days, weeks, months, years. They intervened and sought out the medical care she avoided. Would it be that she would be thankful, not her, she spewed venom . So the people who had taken care of her for the last 15 months bore the brunt of her wildly accusatory and awful statements. Until, finally my brother in law let her have it both barrels. Telling her that they were not after her money, her house, her possessions, they did not hospitalize her to get at those things and that she had mistreated her family over the course of the last 30 or so years. After the fulsilade, she must have reflected as she now wants them to come to see her so that she can apologize. Late, yes but still in time. Life lesson: Trust someone, trust to something, sometimes trusting to another will not mean disappointment. In our lives today, we have precious little trust.