Are wanderers automatically empaths?

[LeafieGreens]

My mother had a bad cancer scare in 2007 or so. She ended up having to have this growth removed from her neck / chest / shoulder area. It was this spidery-mass that was involved with her lymphatic system. She had an intense surgery to remove it, with complications -- reaction to anesthesia and they "nicked" her thoracic duct which caused a ton of extra issues. It took about 10 months or so until she made a full recovery and all testing showed that it wasn't cancer. They never did figure out what it was.

During that time I experienced a lot of what I thought was sympathetic pain in my own neck and shoulders. The pain was more than stress, I remember my neck had a burning and stinging pain, not muscle tension. I remember that it hurt and bothered me so much that I went to my own GP and he told me I was totally fine and just stressed and prescribed me muscle relaxants, lol.

All of this occurred before I was fully Awakened to my path. Now, reading this thread, I am looking back on it and wondering if I energetically was absorbing her illness somehow. I remember having a very real moment of fear and crying with her. I had stopped by my parents house for dinner and was hugging my mom before I left and she told me I was a good son and we were both weeping and I was wishing I could just make it go away for her.

I feel like it would be prideful to proclaim that I had anything to do with possibly helping to heal my mother's illness. But the world is far more amazing than I ever realized and now I am thinking that may just be what happened.