I sound so bitter in my next to last post. I am grateful that some of my relatives have been calling and visiting, and that they bothered to show up at the funeral, but I'm sad that some of them didn't visit my dad in the hospital before he died. His sister said she wanted to remember her brother the way he was when she last saw him alive. I know she lives an hour away, but she recently took a chartered flight from California to Texas for a pleasure trip. My dad's sister-in-law said she couldn't make the prayer vigil, because she had to take her granddaughter to a makeup consultation to see which season she is. That may be true, but why tell me about it? The insensitivity of some people is astonishing and contributes to my feelings of isolation.