Thanks for listening to my call of the day podcast. You can hear my live radio program Monday through Friday from 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern Time on Sirius XM Triumph 11. Nancy, welcome to the program.

Dr. Laura, hi. Thank you for taking my call. I hope you'll bear with me. I'm a tad bit nervous.

Sure. I understand. I understand. I bear with me. I'm a tad bit nervous and very emotional.

I am the product of a dysfunctional family and abusive childhood.

My stats, I'm 63 years old.

I'm the youngest of five children.

I'm estranged for most of my family.

My keto self-preservation, if you will, is I've taken the relationship primarily with my parents,

and I've put it in a shoebox, and I put that shoebox on the top shelf of my closet,

and I let it collect dust. When something happens in life, in that shoebox on the top shelf of my closet, and I let it collect dust.

When something happens in life and that shoe box gets open, the dust makes me sneeze.

I received a call last night from one of my children telling me that one of my sisters was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.

I understand that it's stage one and there's a good prognosis,

but it's clearly difficult information to process.

My parents I have no use for.

Again, they were abusive.

Sorry, let's just stay with your sister,

with her stage one pancreatic cancer.

What is there to process?

What do you have to process?

I get what I there to process? What do you have to process? I get, what I have to process is the hurt that I'm no longer,

that she doesn't talk to me anymore.

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