Dear Judy,
My boyfriend’s father has been diagnosed with cancer, and it’s bad.
I live miles away from him, and most of our conversations are via Skype on the Internet. However, my point is I really like him and want to be there for him.
Unfortunately, I have no idea of how to help him with what he’s [...]
Dear Judy,
My mother has had cancer for 10 years. She has endured a number of operations, chemo and radiation — only to have her cancer recur each time. She is strong and brave, though.
In September she underwent an operation to remove the pleurisy in her lungs. But she knows the cancer is taking its toll. [...]
Dear Judy,
Am I getting paranoid? When I first had my mastectomy and halfway through chemo, I kept very active, visiting kids and grandkids — and my battle was kind of like that. No big deal.
Since then, I’ve been laid off work, and the results of my chemo became more physically obvious despite makeup and wigs. [...]
Dear Judy,
My mother told me to write you. I am 12 years old, going on 13 pretty soon. My father died 3 years ago of cancer.
Now my mom is re-married which is okay with me and maybe even my sister. My step-dad wants me to take his last name and change mine. He’s nice, but a [...]
Dear Judy,
My father-in-law lives about 4 hours away, and seems very ill (major organ removed because of cancer, radiation for 16 weeks, 4 rounds of chemotherapy).
His wife is adament she’ll take care of everything: no need for a nurse,, no need for a house cleaner, no need for one of us to come up and [...]
Dear Judy,
Lately everything seems to have gone wrong in my life. My father has terminal cancer: he has maybe 2 years to live, maybe months. I am working 1000’s of miles away from him.
My girlfriend of 2 years left me. I since learned she was seeing other guys behind my back. This has devastated me.
I [...]
Dear Judy
My best friend is dying of cancer. It has been a very very long ordeal.
She chooses to suffer quietly alone with her husband. I have been her only outside contact during her entire suffering. Barbara takes phone calls only from me.
Friends seem to be irate that they cannot speak with her so [...]
Dear Judy,
I see from your web site that you’re a big fan of cheap funerals and cheap burials. Maybe you’ll understand my dilemma. My whole family hates me and thinks I’m cold and hard just because I want my sister, when she passes, to be cremated.
My sister hates the idea of cremation. She has Stage IV ovarian cancer, [...]
Dear Judy,
I just learned that my mother has terminal cancer. My best friend has been told her mother has Alzheimer’s, past the mild stage. Her memory is shot.
Neither knows about her own diagnosis –yet. But I fully intend to tell my mother about her cancer, so she can make plans and decide whether or not [...]
Dear Judy,
I hope I don’t sound hard-hearted, because I’m really not, but my daughter, now in the fourth grade, is being traumatized. At least every other week in school she sees a classmate who is pale, bald, and so skinny that it frightens all the other kids. Sometimes the boy’s skin breaks out in a terrible [...]
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Posted on January 24th, 2009