Dear Prudence,
My mother recently passed away. I stayed with her for the last two months of her life. I didn’t want to know she was as sick as she was. She wanted me to trim and file her nails. I asked if I had to file them. So she did, but she said it was hard, and took at least one break. The day she passed I noticed her nails were not smooth. I can’t forgive myself. I can’t forget how I could/didn’t help her. I can’t trim and file my own nails without breaking down. How do I move past this? How can I forget and forgive myself? I can’t get out of this loop in my mind.
—So Sad