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My advice is to get on the 1st plane home. You don't get do-overs in life. Go home and be with your mother as much as possible. Say whatever you need to say because you may not get another chance. At this time, put all your differences aside and just be there for her. Let her have her controlling issues. It doesn't matter. Smile and say "yes Mother".
My mother was diagnosed with cancer and went through treatment in what appeared to me to be flying colors. So for some wierd reason, I was never concerned that it would come back. Well 2 years later it did. I was like you single with no kids and living a great distance away.
I will wish until the day that I die that I had moved back home to be with her at the initial diagnosis, researched all treatments and did whatever I could to help. Like I said, you don't get do-overs.