Some stress that I didn't need

My paternal grandmother called just now. She finished her second round of radiation therapy last week, and we talked for a while about how that had gone. My father has been taking care of her, so he was around. And then she tried to get me to talk to him, and things went downhill from there.

At one point she commented that if something happened to her, "all your father would have left is [his sisters]." I wouldn't say it to her, but when that eventually happens, I think it will be good for him. He's in his 40s, yet has only rarely had to deal with the results of his own poor decisions. Because my grandmother has been willing to shield him from them, for his entire life.

But to my father directly? No, I have nothing to say. And I wish she would leave it alone.