Maureen Pollard interviews Meg about her experience of losing her mother during the pandemic, and the difficulties around visitation and care because of the quarantine protocols, especially while she lived in the United States and her mother was in Canada. Meg talks about the struggles with all of the 'what if' questions she asked herself, wondering if the outcome could have been different if she was able to be with her mother sooner, as well as the challenges of trying to navigate and understand the health care system in a different country, and then of hosting a virtual funeral. They also discuss how grateful she is that she was actually able to be with her mother in-person before she passed: "I think I felt lucky at the time, because I knew people in the States whose family had died who were not able to see them at all, never saw them, they died alone. I felt so lucky that I was able to be in the room with her, and hold her hand."
