Writer's Block: It's Too Late to Apologize

[Error: unknown template qotd] When my mother was diagnosed with advanced lung cancer my family only offered words but no help in any form. My mother was forced to take care of my grandmother while recieved chemotheraphy and radiation treatments. I in turn skipped school to take care of my mother and take her to her daily treatments. My family harrassed my mother at my absence from school, too busy with their retired social lives to even step in and help. Instead of focusing on treatments and having some quality of life from the time she was diagnosed she was stressed, depressed, and filled with pain of ever form. She passed away 4 years ago. I recieved my high school diploma six months after she passed. That time frame is a touchy subject with me concerning my family. Not once have they ever express guilt or sorrow in the way they treated my mother. Not once, by word or letter, have they ever appologized. Even if they did, words can't bring back the dead.