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The Dr. Laura Podcast

Cancer Is Ruining Our Lives

The Dr. Laura Podcast

Dr. Laura Schlessinger & SiriusXM

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4.66.3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Tim is turning into a workaholic to avoid the pain of his wife's stage 4 cancer. Searching for advice? Call 1-800-DR-LAURA / 1-800-375-2872 or make an appointment at DrLaura.com

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0:00.0

Thanks for listening to my call of the day podcast. You can hear my live radio program Monday through

0:06.4

Friday from 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern Time on Sirius XM Triumph 11. Tim, welcome to the program.

0:16.3

Hello? Hi, Tim. What's happening? Hi.

0:29.2

Well, I just, uh, I looked to the program on and off, and I just thought I would maybe try to call. First time, uh, uh, talking to you.

0:33.5

I can believe how fast I got through to you.

0:43.2

But I just, I got married.

0:44.8

I'm 52 years old.

0:48.4

I got married six years ago.

1:01.0

And I've been past pace these last six years, but my wife developed cancer about a year and a half ago.

1:08.6

It was, you know, and she's a big fighter and everything and all that. And we've had our, you know, we've had our dimensions stuff before she developed it

1:14.6

and everything.

1:15.0

But a lot has changed now that she developed it as it was just an aggressive stage four breast cancer,

1:24.3

but it has spread since the year and a half

1:28.8

the biopsy where

1:31.0

it spread to the lungs somewhat

1:35.3

and then it actually

1:37.1

spread to the brain too.

1:39.8

But the

1:40.9

issues I'm having

1:43.5

is just

1:44.1

last But the issues I'm having is just last year or so after she's had it is a lot of change.

1:54.1

I work, I've worked a lot of hours each week, I mean, sometimes up for 70 hours.

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