mind the gap

01 February 2006

I'm leaving England on Sunday morning. Several things have happened at home to speed things up and it's time. My mom started having chest pains on Monday and is in the hospital. She has a blockage somewhere and will have to have surgery in SF tomorrow. I'm nervous about the whole thing, scared that she will have some complications. It's very difficult to be far away when family members are ill. My grandma has pnuemonia and my mom is having angioplasty. This is payback for lying to leave my job. I said I had a family emergency and now I do.

I have so many feelings about going home. I want to be there for my family and yet, I want to come back here too. I don't like to think about not seeing my friends for a long time. I don't like to think about my mom being sick and me not being there because I want to pal around the city with my friends. What a selfish brat I'd be if I stayed just a bit longer.

It wasn't supposed to be this way.
mind the gap