My Husband Put My Sick Mother on an Air Mattress and Said He Made the Rules, but What I Did Next Changed Everything

I arranged everything before I left.

I wrote out the medication schedule on a laminated card.

I put it on the refrigerator.

I also put it on the small table in the guest room.

I put the dates and times of the upcoming chemo appointments on the calendar on the refrigerator and also texted them to Gabriel.

I stocked the refrigerator with the foods my mother could keep down, which after three weeks of chemo I understood well, the specific small foods that were not repulsive to a system that found most things repulsive.

Plain crackers.

Ginger tea.

Rice.

Broth.

Applesauce.

I made a pot of rice before I left.

I showed Gabriel where the ginger tea was.

I said: she needs to take the anti-nausea medication at eight in the morning and eight in the evening.