COTD Refresher: Should I Tell My Mom My Cancer Has Returned?

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🗓️ 15 August 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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From my Call of the Day archives; Virginia's not sure she should worry her ill, 86-year-old mother with the news of her possible cancer diagnosis. 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.
0:04.6	Remember, you can hear my live radio program weekdays, 2 to 5 p.m.
0:09.9	Eastern time on Serious XM Triumph 2011.
0:16.6	Virginia, welcome to the program.
0:19.5	Hello, Dr Laura.
0:21.3	Hi, what can I do for you? In 2017 I was diagnosed with ovarian cancer and had surgery and ever since then my blood tests have been normal until I got a phone call
0:41.2	December 16th from my oncologist saying that my
0:46.9	my C-125 has elevated above normal and I've had three blood tests and a cat scan since then and they
0:58.6	can't see anything on my cat scan to verify where that cancer might have spread to. I have my
1:10.4	mother who is quite fragile. She's 86 years old. So I'm just wondering if I should.
1:20.0	When you say she's very fragile what does that mean?
1:24.8	She's her youngest son three years ago passed away from meningitis. My uncle six months after that.
1:36.0	No, you're telling me you're telling me tragedies but you're not telling me
1:39.6	what makes her fragile. We can go through a lot of tragedies and not be fragile, certainly upset, not necessarily
1:46.3	fragile. Two years ago, just before the pandemic, my mom fell in her kitchen,
1:55.7	broke her neck, her shoulder, and her back.
1:58.5	Oh, sorry, not her back per hip.
2:01.6	And spent quite a few months in.
2:05.0	Okay, you haven't answered my question.
2:09.0	What makes you think she's fragile?
2:12.0	She's had a lot of tragedies, but that doesn't mean she's too fragile to mother her daughter.
2:20.0	I just came from her house wanting to put her she's got to go into a home.
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