Shane Jacobson

And we're going, when you get in the bath, can we throw a dirty washing in?

Like a washing machine.

I thought you were knocking on the wall before.

Turns out you were just trying to lean on it.

Every time someone says, how's your mum, we do that little thing with the hand.

She's a little shaky, you know.

So she's like, seriously, four days.

But the truth was, he'd take the wind out of his sails for four days because she –

Dare I say it, I know it's a different experience for everyone, but she was my mum.

And she was and is a rock.

The sad part is, now that I say that, that's the sad part.

She's less of a rock now because it's hard for her.

She can't do things for us.

So she's now –

Got to be assisted to walk and so she's – I just finished getting her into aged care a couple of weeks ago.

I spoke to her on the way in today and, yeah, I said, how are you going, Mum?

You know –

Settling in, I keep asking you that.

My wife said, you've got to stop asking that.

Sometimes I keep asking questions because I want them to say the thing I want to hear.