• exuA
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    2 months ago

    Why does your mom enter your room at 2:00?

    • toynbee@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      My mom had kidney disease. She was on dialysis for a long time, meaning that for most of the night she was attached by catheter to a machine. My room was the closest to hers, so more than once she needed something in the middle of the night but was unable to travel far enough to get it, thus knocking on my door and requesting assistance. As I was a teenager at the time, at least once I was stoking my bram.