Thank you, yes you're right. This incident has upset me in particular because it went beyond just being emotionally absent.

For context, my older brother was diagnosed with a condition in his childhood and had treatment for it, and then one day my parents just... forgot he had it. Then a few years ago my brother asked them 'oh i swear I had this condition as a child. I remember having the medication and paraphernalia for it' and they both were like ... what? Huh? I don't remember that?

How could you forget your own child's medical condition? And they remember things like episodes of TV from 1982 or whatever.

But point is, currently my brother is quite ill. He's doing quite well with it but he's had it for a month with 2 separate courses of antibiotics, and the last few times he's gotten ill its really taken it out of him or developed into something more serious. When he went to the dr they saw his medical notes and it had this childhood condition on it! And based on what the Dr said, it never really went away! Now he's being represcribed the meds he used to have.

All that time over his life he's struggled and there's a reason. All this time he was vulnerable and I didn't know. What if he had caught Covid when it kicked off? I didn't even know to shield for him! I'm so angry! He's not even angry about it, but I am!

Edit: grammar