Words from My Brother

After I wrote my brother--the one closest in age to me--an email updating him on Mom's decline, he wrote back with these words:

It makes me so sad to hear that Mom is going downhill so fast.  I thought that she was hanging in there as she has for awhile.  Your family and Dad have shouldered the load so much and I am truly grateful for your efforts.

"So sad."  Yes.  Me, too, brother.  Me, too...