a day to relive

[smokefan20]

If I could relive one day it would be the last Christmas before my mom passed away.  Not because it was the last good memory I have, but because I was not there with her.  I spent that Christmas with my inlaws and made an excuse that I thought I might be getting sick. I woke that morning with a sore throat.  She was in the hospital and was not allowed to visit with anyone that might be ill.  It was her last good day.  By the next day she was pretty much gone. She died 2 days later.  If I knew then that it would be my last chance to see her alert and talking, I would have been there even if they tried to drag me out of that room.  I regret not going to this day.  It's been 13 years.