Dear Judy,
Please help. I don’t know how to sort through my grandmother’s clothes in order to give some of the stuff away to charity, and keep the rest. In a way, I want to keep everything because my Dad and uncle threw out bags of the stuff (in garbage bags !!) –and I begged for it so they [...]
Dear Judy,
I have two aunts, and they live together (they’re sisters). They’re old, both in their early 80’s. My favorite aunt is dying. She has esophageal cancer, which she doesn’t want to do much about. She feels she’s lived, as she tells me, “long enough.”
She can’t eat much, and she has a tough time swallowing. [...]
Dear Judy,
My 48-year-old sister has colon cancer which has spread everywhere; the doctors say she has maybe nine to ten months left. She is also in pain, which we are trying to get the doctors to deal with.
The issue is our mother, who suffering from dementia: small strokes in the brain mixed with what is [...]
Dear Judy,
I never thought I would write anybody about something so personal, but my father is going crazy. We all expected him to die pretty soon — I can deal with that, and so can my sisters and our mother. But he’s turning into a raving lunatic: he’s been diagnosed as having infarct dementia, caused [...]
Dear Judy,
My father, who died 18 months ago of a heart attack, was a partner in a prominent law firm, along with his older brother. I recently graduated from law school, and the idea was I’d start working in the same firm soon thereafter, while waiting for the results of my law boards. Which I did [...]
Dear Judy,
Our daughter died of breast cancer a year after giving birth (they diagnosed her when she was in her third month of pregnancy, and she refused chemotherapy or radiation, for obvious reasons). In fact she was determined to have the child, who turned out to be a little girl, come what may.
And it came. She died [...]
Dear Judy,
Our father is dying, and it’s getting difficult to see him. The problem? The woman he married after our mother died.
She is two decades younger than him, so I’m sure you get the picture. No, we didn’t approve and I guess it showed. He married this younger woman three months after our mother [...]
Dear Judy,
My mother had breast cancer some two years ago, and from what I was told, especially by her, everything bad was stopped in its tracks. I happen to live in Sacramento. She lives on the East Coast. We speak about twice a week, and we see each other on big holidays and nice occasions like [...]
Dear Judy,
In a nasty twist of face both my mother and my mother-in-law are afflicted with Alzheimers. My husband seems to feel that despite some of the unpleasant (very unpleasant!) outward symptoms of the illness, both kids, who are 19 and 25, should visit them regularly. He says these visits from their grandsons might give the [...]
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Posted on January 24th, 2009