We went on the trip without Mom. The family did post pictures on fb, lol. She’s seething with hatred and jealousy. Too f’n bad, Mom. Now I keep her at a polite distance. No more of our former relationship. All we have is a phone call every few days from me to her, brief, polite life update...ask how she is...she doesn’t even go into it now that she hates me so much. She just grumbles for a second or two. She is in a living hell of her own making, spending her final days in pain and miserable. Such a beautiful, intelligent, funny, great woman... it kills me to see this, and it scared the crap out of me that this will be me, following in her footsteps because I AM HER.