80-year-old wheelchair user Michelle always worried that her sons, Simon and Kevin, would send her to a nursing home one day, but her children promised they wouldn’t. “We would never do this to you, mom,” they assured.
Sadly, such promises turned to dust just two days before the naïve old mother’s 81st birthday when Simon and Kevin handed her some documents concerning a nursing home, and the world suddenly shifted under her feet…
“But Simon, why should I move there?” the shocked old mother asked her eldest son. “Kevin, are you in this too? Both of you promised you would never do this to me!”
“Visit me? I’m not a guest. I am your mother!” poor Michelle cried. She felt defeated. She looked around the house, hounded by the beautiful memories of her once-united family under that roof. With a heavy heart, she packed her things and got ready to move into the nursing home, much to her children’s delight.
