Dear Judy,
My good friend Beth is dying of lung cancer. She is under hospice care, and she still occasionally smokes.
My question. I’m a smoker (half a pack a day, nothing serious…), and every time I visit, I’m longing to light up.
I know, I know. Big bad me. But seeing her the way she is now, [...]
Dear Judy,
I don’t know what to do, which is why I’m writing. One of my good friends from way back has lung cancer, recently diagnosed. He hasn’t smoked in 10 years.
The thing is, he smoked a lot before. Like 3 packs a day, and so I guess even now that he’s stopped, it didn’t make much [...]
Dear Judy,
What can I do about my mother? She has emphysema. We live in a large city where it’s illegal to smoke in office buildings or hotels. Every time I take her out (which is a big deal, as you can imagine…) and she sees someone taking a drag in front of a building, she [...]
Dear Judy,
My husband and I were going through a very nasty divorce, involving 3 kids (17,14 and 10), charges of adultery (mine..but I had my reasons) and of course money (his) — when in the midst of all the legal wrangling he suffered a major stroke. And died about a day later. He was a [...]
Dear Judy,
When someone dies from lung cancer, is it OK to ask the family if the dead person was a smoker? It might help to prevent further deaths, in my opinion.
Harry in Denver
Dear Harry,
Help prevent further deaths — how? I promise you, the deceased is no longer polluting anyone’s air.
What you’re really saying when [...]
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Posted on January 24th, 2009