This First Person column is written by Madeline Buss, who lives in Vancouver. For more information about CBC’s First Person stories, please see the FAQ.
I signed the lease for my first apartment 5,000 kilometres away from Mum. The same day, she was transferred to the ICU.
I felt incredibly guilty; was I failing as a daughter?
Mum had been in and out of the hospital for most of that month. Still, even before that, she has had many medical challenges — multiple sclerosis, needing chemotherapy at age 16 to treat her bone cancer, depression and anxiety. The phone rang as I was
