Yeah, this story's been reeling around in my head ever since I read it. It makes me cry, and I too feel so enraged at the unbelievable agony of the situation. I cannot imagine what I would have done in her shoes, but I suspect that I would have gone berserk in my efforts to move heaven and earth to see my mother. But I'm all too painfully aware that when you're dealing with legal bureaucracies, you're often banging your head against brick walls. Very sad when it's your own mother on the side of that brick wall!