• Advice

    Posted on April 22nd, 2010

    Written by Judy

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    Wrong Advice, Wrong Person

    Dear Judy,
    I saw your advice yesterday to the sister who didn’t want to visit a sibling with breast cancer because she, herself, feared illness and hospitals.
    I am a nurse and I disagree with you totally: You told her to go visit, anway, and that is idiotic. People who are mortally afraid of illness can only [...]

  • Advice

    Posted on August 21st, 2008

    Written by Judy

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    Doesn’t DNR Mean What It Says?

    Dear Judy,
    My elderly father has lived for four years in an assisted living community, where he signed a “Do-Not-Resuscitate” document in the event his heart stopped beating, and also wrote out  — in pen — his desire not to have either feeding or breathing tubes, if push came to shove.
    Well he suffered congestive heart failure, [...]