Stay strong terry because a mother only want's one thing in this life and that his childs remains happy and strong no matter how worse the conditions are, so if you stay strong then your mother surely get's more encouragement and she also feel's good, i wish & pray for her speedy recovery my friend, i agree with your words about life, life to me is just like a question paper and we all have to solve it in a right way and then in the end it would be a great news for us, god tests us with different situations and the person who went through these situations with patience and believe surely win's in the end, this life is not the last one there is another life after this in which god makes no pains, no troubles, no tensions for the peoples who spent this life on a god's described way, who tightly holds the rope of the god in this world will surely gains access to jannah. I hope each day brings your mum renewed strength and that much closer to recovery. Stay strong