Why was it your job to save your parents? Your job is to save yourself. As I said before, you are quite young. You can still have a fantastic career, if you choose that. I feel like a failure because I got sick at the height of my career and had to quit. But that wasn't my fault. Life happens. I am not a failure. I am a success for dealing with this terrible illness the way I have. The fact is, we all have to deal with difficult, unpleasant challenges in our lives. People in your age group are dealing with cancer and bone marrow transplants and heart disease and the unexpected death of a young spouse and bankruptcy and multiple sclerosis. Stuff happens. The question isn't 'Why did this happen to me?' The question is "What am I going to do about it?'