Dear Judy,
I have had to mastectomies. But the cancer seems to be spreading anyway, even with chemo. I have no hair, and I often feel weak and sick.
My problem is my son who is 9. I have tried talking to him repeatedly about my disease, but he doesn’t want to listen, or even understand. (His [...]
Dear Judy,
My sister got a diagnosis of breast cancer when she was only 30. She had a mastectomy, some chemo. That was 10 years ago, and every checkup since has been fine.
So she’s lucky, right? Not according to her!
Every time something bad happens to anyone — and some very bad things have happened (we have [...]
Dear Judy,
I know you receive a lot of emails from terminally sick people asking when they should reveal the truth to relatives or friends. I have a special case.
My ex-husband and I have been very friendly for the last 4 years. (It wasn’t always that way — he left me for another lawyer in his [...]
Dear Judy,
I think you’re doing for dying what Dr. Ruth did for sex! Allowing an open discourse, and breaking down barriers.
So speaking of death and sex: Despite being weak and occasionally weirded out by recent experience, I still want it. I just had a recent recurrence of breast cancer which, once again, seems to be [...]
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Posted on January 24th, 2009