Cancer Is Ruining Our Lives

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4.4 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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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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