Dear Judy,
I am a 32-year-old paralegal. For years there’s been this lawyer in the firm (it’s a big one) who’s been down on me, always criticizing anything I do, and I know when I asked for raise, he was the one who stopped the firm from rewarding me last year.
Anyway, turns out he now has [...]
Dear Judy,
How do I tell my teenage daughter that her father is dying of cancer?
I just found out on January 4th of this year that her father has stomach cancer and that it’s progressed. My daughter’s Dad has been in her life and she always loved him.
As she’s gotten older, she’s seen his bad ways [...]
Dear Judy,
I need help with my mother. She has been diagnosed with stomach cancer five days ago in a hospital here in Los Angeles. She is still in the hospital because they cannot release her unless someone can care for her.
I don’t have the ability to give her proper care (I work full time). Is [...]
Dear Judy,
I have stomach cancer, and am not expected to continue much longer. I have a good friend who keeps texting me: every bit of crap (he calls it “information” or “the latest”) there is on stomach cancer.
Like if I read it, the disease will go away.
Right now I don’t want to read [...]
Dear Judy,
My sister and I are 14 and 12. (I am 12). My mother’s best friend has stomach cancer. Would you say it’s weird for my mother to spend every day practically with her friend, and stop spending time with us and stop watching movies with us? Sometimes she even doesn’t cook dinner any more. [...]
Dear Judy,
I read your reply last month to a reader whose good friend died — she wanted to know if she could call the widower and reclaim a pair of diamond earrings she had given her friend. I’m in a similar, but not exactly the same, position.
My good friend died of stomach cancer last month, and [...]
Dear Judy,
I know this question isn’t totally up your alley, but maybe you’ll answer it anyway. Last year I married a widower (his wife died of stomach cancer two years ago), and we get along very well. He has three grown children with whom I have cordial relations — actually more than cordial. We spend some [...]
Dear Judy,
I’ll bet you never had this question before. I happen to know for a fact that a supposedly “brilliant” oncologist in our area is actually a complete quack. Or if not a complete quack, a real screw-up. I know because my friend who has stomach cancer is considering suing him for malpractice, and she has [...]
Dear Judy,
At the risk of sounding completely selfish, I can’t stand it any more. Everyone around me seems to be dying, and I just don’t want to deal with it (or them) any more.
In case you think I’m exaggerating or just crazy, it’s pretty much literally true: my mother-in-law who has Alzheimers has just months to [...]
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Posted on January 24th, 2009