So my mother (88) was depressed enough to be on death's door a couple months back.  She had Awesomeson and Awesome Dil worried which they didn't need since Awesome son is serving a deployment until April overseas.

Now my parents have been religiously shunning me for a good two decades.  2 months ago my father decided to call me and tell me what was happening which normally I never get a call from them.  And before all this happened he adamantly refused to see me when Awesomeson offered to visit taking me along.  Which upset Awesomeson.

Well the medical staff that was performing practically hospice for my mother could not understand why I didn't hop a plane and immediately rush there.  I have very few good memories of my childhood other than being taken to see Gone With The Wind in a theater.  

I made my best attempts to do video sessions with her which were quite frequent.  She had several electrotherapy sessions and apparently rallied, is out of the hospital and back at home and we are back to crickets.

I did email my father with photos of our latest project and he basically replied "interesting."

  That was the last I heard from them.