#6 - Top 40 Countdown '23: I'm Not As Strong As I'd Like

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4.6 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2023

⏱️ 6 minutes

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June's cancer diagnosis has forced her into the uncomfortable position of feeling weak and in need of support instead of being the strong one others rely on. Email questions or comments: drlaura@drlaura.com - Participate on the radio program: call 1-800-Dr-Laura / 1-800-375-2872 or make an appointment https://www.drlaura.com/make-an-appointment.

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0:00.0	Thanks for listening to my call of the day podcast. You can hear my live
0:04.7	radio program Monday through Friday from 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern time on
0:08.9	Sirius XM Triumph 111. June, welcome to the program.
0:13.0	Hi, Dr. Laura, thank you so much for taking my call.
0:18.0	But today I'm kind of struggling. I need to be strong but in this last year since retirement in
0:28.2	spite of having screening mammograms I found out I have breast cancer, I had surgery, I had chemo, radiation. My husband
0:40.3	had surgery and now he has complications from that and today he's going to a specialist at a
0:48.1	university to see if maybe he can work through that and I have a new grandchild that's about a year old going to be soon and another one on the way and I want to be strong for my family but I'm just having a bit of time right now and I do
1:08.0	I'm going to ask before you go on before you go on I'm very sorry that you've experienced all of this.
1:15.0	But you want to explain to me what the hell you mean by strong?
1:18.0	What exactly does that mean you expect yourself to be? Well, I don't.
1:24.0	Well, I don't feel like I should be having a trembling voice every time I talk about these things.
1:39.7	I feel like...
1:41.0	Okay, may I...
1:42.0	One thing at a time, ma'am, if I'm going to help you, I do better when it's one thing at a time, okay?
1:48.0	Okay? If you're sitting in a room with a one-year-old, are you going to be talking about your radiation?
1:55.0	No. No. No. You're going to be playing a game, reading a story, throwing a ball, you're going to be doing stuff.
2:02.0	You're not going to have a tremulous voice because
2:05.0	you're going to be distracted by the one-year-old. Right. So let's just keep
2:12.2	breaking this down so you can see that your expectations are silly.
2:17.0	Silly.
2:18.0	Okay.
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