I Don't Want to Be the Caregiver

The text from your sister doesn't even end in a question mark: 'So you'll take Mom, right?' The discharge planner is waiting. Your spouse has gone quiet. And somewhere underneath the panic is a feeling you're not supposed to admit out loud - you do not want this. Not the daily lifting, not the lost career, not the decades of history this would reopen. And the moment you think it, the guilt arrives...