{"id":2783,"date":"2025-06-07T00:13:24","date_gmt":"2025-06-07T00:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informed24.info\/?p=2783"},"modified":"2025-06-07T00:13:24","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T00:13:24","slug":"i-refused-to-help-my-daughter-during-a-medical-emergency-after-what-she-did-to-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informed24.info\/?p=2783","title":{"rendered":"I Refused to Help My Daughter During a Medical Emergency After What She Did to Us"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We received a heartfelt note from one of our readers, who shared details regarding a difficult family situation. It\u2019s a predicament that many parents can relate to: a moment of dread or indecision drives a breach between loved ones. In her narrative, she discusses a decision she made during a trying moment and the enormous guilt she now feels for not being present when her kid needed her the most.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>I am a 58-year-old mom. My daughter, Hannah, is 32, and we haven\u2019t spoken in years, but my husband and I live about a half-hour away from her.<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last week, something unexpected occurred. Hannah contacted me in tears and was plainly in anguish. \u201cI need to go to the hospital right now!\u201d she shouted. I quickly protested and said no\u2014he couldn\u2019t handle three little children at his age.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She fell silent for a time, and I suggested she take her infant and toddlers with her or ask a neighbor instead. She begged, \u201cMom, I am in so much pain, and the kids are sleeping. \u201cI don\u2019t want to drag them to the ER.\u201dI felt overwhelmed and frustrated. Old memories bubbled up. Years ago, when I needed support during my recovery from surgery, Hannah hadn\u2019t come through for me. She apologized back then, but the memory still stung. When she asked me why I couldn\u2019t come, I reminded her that many years ago she did the same to me, and she went quiet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We received a heartfelt note from one of our readers, who shared details regarding a difficult family situation. It\u2019s a predicament that many parents can relate to:&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1904,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informed24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informed24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informed24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informed24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informed24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2783"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/informed24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2784,"href":"https:\/\/informed24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2783\/revisions\/2784"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informed24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informed24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informed24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informed24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}