Dear Judy,
A very close friend, a prominent member of the community and serious professional died of a massive heart attack recently and I was devastated.
It got worse after we – her other friends and I — discovered what was in her Will. In it she asked me to help have her poems published. Trust me, I [...]
Dear Judy,
A close friend died some months ago. Let’s put it this way: he was no saint. We’d been buddies in high school and reconnected in our 20’s. He drank a fair bit, not 2 % milk. He had a wife, but you’d never know it if you met him in a bar or a [...]
Dear Judy,
I don’t know what to do. My best friend lives in Nebraska, and I live in North Carolina. It sounds like we’re far apart but we never really are because we talk all the time. Last year we learned she had an abdominal tumor; it was malignant and the cancer has spread.
I really want [...]
Dear Judy,
My best friend of 20 years is dying of cancer, and I am very upset. But unfortunately a quite selfish issue has clased with my friend’s untimely sickness.
My friend wants me by his side during his last months, and I have been there regularly. But due to the economy — and perhaps my own [...]
Dear Judy,
I know you’re going to think this is a dumb question. We’re a group of four friends, and one of us lost her husband just 2 months ago. She has 3 kids, ranging in age from 9 to 15. Her husband was a house-husband so until just recently life was pretty easy on her, [...]
Dear Judy,
Lately everyone who writes you seems to feel really guilty — usually not those who are terminally ill, but their so-called friends who are still very healthy. I have the opposite problem. My breast cancer has recurred, twice, and this time it seems more aggressive than ever. I figure I don’t have a lot of [...]
Dear Judy,
This may sound like a ridiculous or maybe petty problem to you, considering the rest of what I’m about to describe, but to me it’s not. My friend, who has always had a difficult relationship with her mother, begged me to accompany her on a recent visit — her mother, whom I’ve know since childhood, is dying of [...]
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Posted on January 24th, 2009