Michael was silent for a long time, just processing all of that information into one place, before running a hand over his face. "Is she okay? I mean -- is she still Mom?"

He knew there was a reason that Sam didn't open with that right away. If everything was hunky dory, then this would have been a much happier phone call than it had started out as. If Sam was taking this long to get around to the news, there was something wrong, and Michael wanted to know what it was.