Dear Judy,
My ex-husband and I were together for 10 years and have a son. He is remarried. I have now heard he has brain cancer, with not much time left.
What I am having a hard time with is A) finding support groups that can help me. And B) advice on how to prepare my son for [...]
Dear Judy,
I’m 18 and my mother has high blood pressure, very high. In our family that’s a killer (her mother died of a series of strokes from hypertension).
I still live at home because I go to our local community college. Things are difficult. Every time I do something of which my mom disapproves she tells [...]
Dear Judy,
My sister’s kid is a fine athlete: she’s a champion highschool basketball player and travels with her team all over Canada (my sister in tow). That’s how come my sister and her kid were away when my father was hospitalized.
He’d had a series of strokes. And, to put things in a nutshell, by the end [...]
Dear Judy,
I am 16, and my mother said I should write you. I had a little sister until a month ago when she died. She had Down Syndrome, and had a very weak heart.
She was 4 years old when she died. She got a very bad virus, and that was it. It came as a horrible [...]
Dear Judy,
My wife and I are writing from Great Britain (don’t specify city, please) because we don’t know where else to turn. Last summer our son, then 13, went swimming with his mates. They were abroad, on a trip sanctioned by their school and our son and six of his friends got separated from the rest of [...]
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Posted on January 24th, 2009