My brother (raised a JW, never baptized, not a JW at all) and I were talking this morning, and he informed me that our grandmother - our last living grandparent - is very ill. It sounds as though she will die soon, because she stopped taking her insulin and all other medications. My mother informed my brother after receiving a phone call from her brother/my uncle.
I'm the only one of my siblings who was not informed directly by our mother. Out of all my siblings, I'm the only one who was baptized as a JW and then left, so I'm thinking this is par for the course with being shunned, although my grandmother was never a JW herself. This is really pissing me off.
I asked my brother to keep it to himself for the time being that he had informed me, because I want to see how long it takes before my mother decides to tell me herself. Then again, I don't want it to be AFTER my grandmother dies.
I'm trying to decide whether I call my parents out of the blue - as though I don't know - and see whether they tell me. Or call them up and say "Why did I have to find out from someone else and not directly from you?" Or do I continue to play the waiting game?
Love, Scully