Did I Do the Right Thing Letting My Daughter Go?

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4.6 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Barbara had to make the heart-wrenching decision to take her daughter off of life support. Now, she's questioning if she made the right decision. Email questions or comments: drlaura@drlaura.com - Participate on the radio program: call 1-800-Dr-Laura / 1-800-375-2872 or make an appointment https://www.drlaura.com/make-an-appointment.

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0:00.0	Thanks for listening to my call of the day podcast. You can hear my live
0:04.7	radio program Monday through Friday from 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern time on
0:08.9	serious xm. Triumph 111.
0:11.3	Barbara welcome to the program.
0:14.0	Hi, Dr. Laura. Hi.
0:17.0	Hi. My daughter passed away. She was 52 years old. She passed away on the 19th of December and she had a really serious
0:27.3	disease called scleroderma and she had a very serious infection and it went into her lungs and we thought she was going to,
0:36.3	you know, come out of it and go home, but she developed the acute respiratory distress syndrome and, know she was a full code but
0:46.4	they wanted to take her to the intensive care unit but they they said that
0:51.1	because of her lung condition we could put her on the
0:54.6	ventilator but we don't think we can get her off so I decided to just let her
0:59.3	pass away and I was all by myself in the hospital room.
1:03.0	And I'm...
1:05.0	I just don't know what to do right now.
1:08.0	I don't know how to...
1:10.0	I don't know where she went, I don't know where she is and I know where she is and I know I know I know I
1:17.2	I don't know where she is that's the problem and I don't know I can tell you I can tell you, I can give you an answer to that.
1:27.0	Okay.
1:29.0	She's in your heart and memories, and she's in the heart and the memories of the people who cared about her.
1:33.0	That's where she'll always be.
1:35.0	Okay.
1:38.0	See that we know about for sure, heaven or hell or purgatory, that's a belief system but I know for a fact that she will always be in your heart and mind and memories.
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