to dispose of the instant appeal. Even adopting the most generous construction of this phrase, as did the district court, we find that Fioto’s trial testimony established only that he missed work in order to visit his mother at the hospital while she was admitted there for cancer surgery. He did not testify to an intent to provide her with psychological or physical care, nor did he testify to providing his mother with actual care during his hospital visit. His testimony that h ted the inference that he intended to visit his mother while she was hospitalized. For the reasons discussed by the district court, standing alone, an employment termination on account of such an incident cannot give rise to an FMLA claim. Cf. Marchisheck v. San Mateo County, 199 F.3d 1068, 1076 (9th Cir.1999) (<HOLDING>). We review for abuse of discretion a district
holding inter alia that mothers act of taking leave in order to relocate her son to live abroad while motivated by concern for her sons physical and psychological condition did not constitute care within the meaning of fmla because she had no plans to seek medical or psychological treatment for her son abroad holding that debtor who was separated from her husband and who testified that she would only return to the marital home if her husband vacated the house or died or if she was required to care for him or her adult son there or if the couple reconciled was an abandonment of the marital home as her homestead holding that because a claimant testified that she had no insurance and could not afford treatment her failure to take medication for her symptoms is not a clear and convincing reason for discrediting her symptom testimony holding that trial court properly terminated fathers obligation to support his seventeenyearold daughter who refused to live with father but instead chose to reside in her own apartment after her mother moved out of state where daughter offered no justifiable reason for not living with her father daughter only contended that her stepmother was too neat for her and that she wanted to live closer to her friends holding that an employee who did not present evidence that she could have returned to work prior to the expiration of her fmla leave allowance was not entitled to additional leave merely because her employer had not properly provided her with notice that the leave was designated as fmla leave