COTD Refresher: Amanda is struggling to deal with the loss of her dad

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🗓️ 25 June 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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From my Call of the Day archives; Amanda was with her dad when he died, and now she can't get the image out of her head. What can she do to stop thinking about it? 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	Time now for a refresher from my Dr Laura Call of the Day Archives and remember you two can participate on my live radio program heard weekdays from 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern time on Serious XM Triumph 111.
0:17.0	Amanda, welcome to the program.
0:19.0	Hi.
0:20.0	Hi, hi, Uncle Laura.
0:21.0	I'm very, very nervous. I'm a long time listener and I love your show. I love listening to you. I let's hear every day.
0:29.0	Thank you. So my dad passed recently and I'm having a really hard time coping.
0:37.0	Well, I would expect you to if you cared about him.
0:44.0	I can't even get the last couple of images of him out of my head.
0:48.0	Oh, God, did you watch him die?
0:51.0	Yes.
0:52.0	That's not good. I left. He had multiple my Loma and he was doing well until just about two weeks before he died.
1:06.3	There was still hope he was gonna come home
1:10.4	and go to rehab.
1:11.6	That sounds like the story I had with my husband.
1:14.0	Always going to come home.
1:15.0	Yeah, that's kind of why I wanted to talk to you.
1:19.0	I feel like, you know, I am I by the time I got there he had not had any more pain he was in so much pain and he wouldn't take the morphine until all four of us got there.
1:33.6	I'm one of four and my mom.
1:36.8	So he said goodbye to each one of us and then he went to sleep.
1:41.4	Well, how nice though? Yeah.
1:44.0	How nice, he just went to sleep.
1:49.0	I hope you and I go the same way.
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