Another update

Fortunately Mario was able to make it to see Abuela and spend a couple days with her. He arrived at the airport at midnight and was able to get a rental car after all. He went directly to the hospital and was able to spend the night with Abuela and he sent Michael home to get some sleep. Mario had a plane ticket to fly back at 1 that afternoon. But he was struggling with the decision to try to stay longer or come home and see us since he has already been gone almost 2 weeks and leaving for his deployment soon. Mario decided to come home. He turned in his rental car but when he got up to the ticket counter at the airport, he asked the agent about changing his flight to Monday. She was able to give him a new ticket (direct flight instead of a layover like he originally had) for Monday evening at no extra cost. Again, he was wearing his uniform, so I wonder if that made a difference. He rushed back to Alamo and got his car back.

Poor Mario, it has been a real emotional strain on him. He feels so bad not spending more time with his grandma but also is anxious to get back home. I felt so bad for him having to make that hard decision. His father who is an accountant was getting behind on his payroll and taxes. So Mario made the right choice and stayed an extra day so his dad could get some sleep and meet all his deadlines at work. Plus he had an extra day to spend with his grandma.

Unfortunately it looks like Mario will be flying back before Abuela dies. I know that is going to be very hard on him. She is living longer than the doctors thought but she is getting worse and she wants to die. She keeps asking why she can't just die now. Hospice came in and wanted to move her to a cheaper facility but Mario and his dad don't want to move her. So Michael will have to be the one to take up the fight with them.

I feel bad that Michael will have to return home to an empty home everyday. I know that will be difficult for him. Maybe I should be nicer to my kids so at least one of them will take care of me if I outlive Mario. I doubt I will outlive him though since his grandparents both lived into their 90's. Hopefully he got their genes.