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Mom called me at 6:30 last night, about 15 minuets before i left for work. She does this once or twice a week to tell me her woes - funny how she can remember that i'm getting ready to go to work. She told me that the site of her incision from her latest tumor was hurting and is always hurting. I'm not supposed to contradict but i do tell her that i spent several hours with her Sunday and there was no talk of any kind of pain. Just trying to tell her that if she is hurting now, she hasn't always been hurting because she can't remember. Then mom starts calling herself stupid. I am concerned about her having pain at the site but at the moment i couldn't do anything about it. I told her to tell the nurse and i would call a little later to see what's up. After i go to work mom calls the house again and says there is a pain in her side probably from her diverticulitis. When i call mom at 8:30 she's all upset about when she was attacked. I explain it was a night mare that happened a year and a half ago; at which point she starts crying, asking why she can't let it go. And i have no idea because mom can't remember what she had for dinner 10 minuets later. Sometimes she is convinced my brother and his wife are getting divorced, sometimes this, sometimes that. I understand the anxiety; it's in my family's genes. I just don't understand fate, i guess.