Dear Judy,
My mother has MS. She is 52 and has had it since age 30. You know the disease. It progresses then stops, progresses then stops.
The thing is, she has stopped herself. She doesn’t do much of anything any more and I know she can do some things. She can read. She can talk. She [...]
Dear Judy,
I am 38 and married with 3 kids. Our mother has colon cancer, very advanced, and my brother, who is a volunteer fireman, never has time to help in her care.
I understand his volunteer work is important to him and his community, but it really pisses me off, because I too have responsibilities (my [...]
Dear Judy,
I was diagnosed with vulvar cancer in December 23rd.
They left me a phone message: “Your test results came back, you have cancer, Merry Christmas!”
I’ve seen the doctor once since then for some tests when they put me in a big tube for some x-rays or something.
When I asked my doctor questions, he says he [...]
Dear Judy,
My daughter died of breast cancer which spread everywhere. That was 3 years ago. There are 4 kids, my grandchildren, and the oldest is 12. It’s all very tragic, and I’m still not recovered really. Every time I see the eldest, who is beautiful with light brown hair, I see my own daughter’s face.
My even [...]
Dear Judy,
I am 19 and I go to college. When I was 10 my father died. My mother and grandfather always said my mother died in a car accident because his vision was always bad, and the night was dark (his car rolled over a hill late at night on a badly lit road not far from our [...]
Dear Judy,
Our mother has Alzheimer’s and it’s pretty advanced. My older brother, who is 37 and never has done a day’s work in his life and never has spent much time with the rest of us, suddenly discovered in the last months how much he loves our mother and needs to be around her.
He even [...]
Dear Judy,
I feel so terrible, I don’t know where to turn. My friend of 10 years (we live together) has Stage III prostate cancer, which has spread. I know he will die. But I also know I wish he would die now.
Obviously, I’ve never shared any of this with him or anyone. It makes me [...]
Dear Judy,
4 years ago my husband died in a car crash, head-on. We have 2 children, and at the time of my husband’s death they were 5 and 2.
My in-laws have been terrific. Very supportive, kind, and generous, and I really appreciated that, and still do. They still babysit whenever I have class (I am [...]
Dear Judy,
My sister died last year of ovarian cancer. Practically a year to the day her husband, whom I’ve always liked and thought the world of, married a new wife.
I did some mental calculations and figured out they must have been “dating” while my sister was sick with cancer. Because there have been references from [...]
Dear Judy,
I am newly married and have a 15-year-old stepdaughter. Her biological father is dying of lung and colon cancer.
I want to comfort both my stepdaughter and my wife. My stepdaughter feels her father no longer cares about her, and about a year ago told her Mom, “I wish he would die.” Then 2 weeks [...]
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Posted on January 24th, 2009