Dear Judy,
My sister and I haven’t spoken in years. We never got along, but when we were in our 20’s she did something so awful I can’t bring myself to mention it or I’ll be in tears. It had to do with my sexuality is all I’ll say.
Anyway, she’s just been diagnosed with breast cancer [...]
Dear Judy,
My sister who has breast cancer, as it turns out, was misdiagnosed over a period of five years.
She complained every year (sometimes twice a year) about her breast getting harder and harder. Anyhow, by the time the doctors found it, she had an 8.5 centimeter tumor, which took up almost all of her breast, [...]
Dear Judy,
My sister got a diagnosis of breast cancer when she was only 30. She had a mastectomy, some chemo. That was 10 years ago, and every checkup since has been fine.
So she’s lucky, right? Not according to her!
Every time something bad happens to anyone — and some very bad things have happened (we have [...]
Dear Judy,
Maybe this seems petty compared to some of the emails you get. But I go to the same gym every day at 8 AM — well every weekday anyway. And I always see almost all the same people every day, all of us getting pumped before we go off to work. And we always [...]
Dear Judy,
In all, 5 friends of mine have been diagnosed with breast cancer. One died. We are all in our 50’s. What do you think of the way our government task force guidelines swept the importance of early detection under the rug? They basically said Hey no worries, under 50 you definitely don’t need a mammogram, [...]
Dear Judy,
My best friend is dying (breast cancer). I happen to know she still cares for an old boyfriend. When they broke up, he married someone else. Now he’s divorced.
My question: Should I tell him about the situation? Should I get them together now? My friend is pretty sick and obviously doesn’t look great, but [...]
Dear Judy,
I’m not sure if I’m terminally ill or not. I am 37, single, and my breast cancer — yes the same cancer they told me was out of my life forever — has recurred, as I discovered last week.
The usual treatment advised: mastectomy, radiation, chemo. After 6 years of being supposedly cancer-free this is a [...]
Dear Judy,
I don’t know if you receive a lot of questions like this or not, and in some ways I feel stupid for even asking.
My best friend has breast cancer – we don’t know yet if it has spread a lot. But I know it’s bad, because she’s already making plans for The End: doing her will, [...]
Dear Judy,
Four years ago, I discovered I had breast cancer. Not a good thing, and it gets worse: it metastasized. My live-in of the era decamped (couldn’t stand the sight of me being sick, he said), and the next thing I knew he was living with someone new.
Long story short: it’s pretty obvious he felt [...]
Dear Judy,
My sister who is just 29 has breast cancer, and her oncologist is recommending not just chemo, but also that her healthy breast be removed. He says the type of cancer she has is very aggressive, and she will likely die of breast cancer if she doesn’t do as he says. (He says in [...]
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Posted on January 24th, 2009