Hi titomitho, first of all I am sorry to hear what happened to your folks. I absolutely understand what you meant. I understand some people call home on weekly, fortnightly, monthly or even in a couple of months to check back on their folks. Sometimes when you are stressed and on this "rat-race", you tend to take a bit easy on things which are meant to be your first priority. Similar thing happened to me yesterday. I called back home after a long break of about a month and found out that my brother had collapsed in his office. Later it was found that he had developed internal bleeding and had ulcer which could have been fatal if had hapened at the wrong place at the wrong time. Quite unexpected with so less symptoms. A week in the hospital and good medication and thanks god he is back recovering and would probably will be healed and good as ever soon. Apparently I was not informed (as people usually do) for the sake making relatives worry far away. When you told your story I couldn't stop relating it to myself.