4sight Health May 15, 2024
My mom is 85, and she still lives alone in the same house that me and my sister grew up in. My mom’s in relatively decent health for a person her age, but my sister and I make her text us sometime after dinner and before bed to let us know she’s still alive. We call it “proof of life.” She likes to know we’re alive, too.
The daily proof of life ritual came about after we couldn’t reach my mom for almost two days. My sister and I flipped a coin to see who would drive the 40 minutes to my mom’s house to see if she was dead. My sister lost, and as she was getting in her...