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Annasdad:
I’m thinking maybe she had at least a bit of that intuition so many moms have hinting at the problems, even if she couldn’t put a finger on it, which may have helped tip her to do the trip and go help her D once she realized the symptom. </p>
<p>If we all required our kids to go to college within only a few hour drive of home it sure would change the college landscape somewhat and probably make the college choice easier. As some more anecdotes - once I left for college it wouldn’t have even occurred to me to have my mother come care for me and she never even knew the times I visited the ER (back in the not so connected days), and both of my kids have made ER visits without me/W attending. Somehow we all managed just fine. That doesn’t mean we wouldn’t have done some nurturing if it was more readily convenient (which it isn’t when they’re on the other side of the country or even when they’re a few hours away but busy, with roomies in their room, still need to do HW, etc.), but it wasn’t ‘needed’.</p>