Talk about using discretion, I'm going to Texas tomorrow to visit my folks because my dad is in the final fight of 10 years of cancer. My mom just put a hospital bed in the bedroom and had handrails installed in the bathroom.

3 plane tickets to Texas......$800
Dinner with the parents......$250
Dropping a bomb on your stressed out mom-soon-to-be-widow.......priceless

Maybe it will be a distraction and she'll feel happy to have another issue to "mentally" deal with.

After the call she said "Thank you...I really enjoyed talking to you about this".

We need a whole new website for dealing with the relationship between us and our parents. Hmmm...."coddlebusting.com"

Anywhere is walking distance if you have the time -Steven Wright