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My Inheritance Came In and I Have To Tell My Parents Something

Even though it’s too late.

Iva Ursano
4 min readApr 13, 2019

My father died about 5 years ago (I think, sorry I’m not really sure) and my mother just passed away in February of this year. They both lived full lives, dad was 88 and mom was 83.

He had slight dementia when he died. She had full blown Alzheimers and it was horrible. You can read more about that here:

We patiently waited for years for mom to die. She was rotting away in a nursing home, a vegetable of a woman. It was disgusting and frustrating to say the least.

We all knew that when mom finally went, there was a nice little inheritance for me and my 3 sisters. After she died, we all waited patiently, again, for that to come through.

It finally came through this week and to be honest, I was a little shocked. Also to be honest, I still can’t believe I’m finally not starving poor anymore.

But I had crazy emotions after it arrived. Emotions that honestly surprised me. I just thought, inheritance comes in and I…

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