I agree a phone call would have been better!

Maybe she was too stressed to have the same conversation over and over agin.

My mum is the same, 84 and texts for birthdays, Xmas etc. bit sad really

i ike these stories

Maybe it’s because she thinks this is how it’s done now.

thanks for the response but no she never rings us since she knows how to text, birthdays, christmas, the only time i have spoken to her is when i ring her, i thought it might have been different when it came to being ill or in hospital, what if it had been worse and he passed away before i got a text or to see him.

As inappropriate as it was maybe she just couldn’t deal with the actual phone calls and texting was easier. It is such a difficult thing to do is ring and tell someone bad news. My sister in law texted me when my brother was diagnosed with cancer. I wasn’t offended because I knew how hard it would be for her to ring me and say the words out loud. The only thing you can you is to say thank you for sending the text about your Father but I would have preferred to have had a phone call.