Dear Judy,
I thought your advice yesterday to that woman whose friend had leukemia — and who refused to acknowledge she was terminal, despite her doctor’s prognosis – was shameful!
No. 1 — the dying need to put, as her own doctor put it, their affairs in order. So lying to yourself just means that when the time [...]
Dear Judy,
No one I’ve ever known has had this problem. I have a good friend who has an especially bad form of leukemia. She is only 32 and it’s awful to see the toll the disease is taking.
Yet she refuses to acknowledge anything. She acts like she’s going to improve! We all know this isn’t [...]
Dear Judy,
I think whatever I write is going to sound harsh, no matter what. My sister lost both her children — 1 in a drowning accident, the other of leukemia, and that was just this year.
I’ve been very sympathetic, there for her all the time. But sometimes, if I just mention any hint of a [...]
Dear Judy,
I’m a tenured professor (yes, the last of a dying breed, no pun, considering the name of your web site, intended); I prefer not to name the university at which I teach for reasons that will become obvious.
What I’m facing is an ethical question. I have a sophomore- year student with leukemia; he is in [...]
Dear Judy,
I read your online column pretty regularly, and you’ve never dealt with this issue before. Maybe I’m the only one being plagued this way. I just don’t know.
My boyfriend of four years died of leukemia. I was his caregiver at the end. I can’t help it that he died, but you wouldn’t know it [...]
I normally don’t write about surviving a bleak prognosis and proving the doctor a liar (too much false hope is a lot like too many recreational drugs or too much alcohol: all they’ll do is soften your brain, and then kill you).
But I couldn’t help being impressed by Evan Handler, an actor best known for [...]
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Posted on January 24th, 2009