“He has too much salt.
My mother had seemed ashamed.
At the time I thought my father was just being too protective.
Now those same memories looked completely different.
The doctor kept asking questions.
Did your husband ever punish her if He ate Those foods?
“Punish me?” No.
Were you angry?
My mother smiled faintly.
“A lot.
Something inside me turned cold.
“Mom, why didn’t you ever tell us?”
She looked at me.
Because I didn’t want to.
“For thirty years?”
"Yes.
Did Dad force you?
My mother was silent again.
And, somehow, that silence scared me more than anything I could have said.
I went out into the hallway.
My father was sitting in a chair, his hands resting on his knees.
"Dad.
He looked up.
Why did you forbid Mom from eating bread and salt for thirty years?
He did not respond immediately.
Did he tell you?
"Yes.
“And he didn’t tell you anything else?”
My anger grew.
What more was he supposed to tell me?
My father nodded slowly.
“I see.
His calm angered me even more.
“Aren’t you even going to defend yourself?”
He looked at me and said quietly:
“If Evelyn has decided not to tell the whole story yet, I’m not going to tell it for her.
At that moment, the doctor opened the door.
“Mr. Robert, please come back in.
We all went back to the room.
My mother's eyes were red.
The doctor had placed an old thick medical folder on the table. My father had taken her to the hospital.
“These are your wife’s old medical records?”
“Yes,” my father replied.
The doctor turned several pages.
Then he looked at my mother.
“Mrs. Evelyn, I think it’s time to tell your daughter the part she omitted.
My mother looked at my father for a long time.
Then he looked at me.
Thirty years ago, I almost died.
I was frozen.
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My mother continued.
Back then, he had been feeling bad for months. She had been hospitalized several times. For a long time, doctors could not understand what was happening.
Finally, they found that his body reacted very poorly to certain foods and that, due to another medical problem, he had also been given a strict low-sodium diet.
He had been given a very specific eating plan, under medical supervision.
