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Simone, welcome to the program.

Hi Dr Laura, thank you for taking my call.

Thank you.

What can I help you with?

I'm calling today because I'm a nurse. I was a pandemic and I found that I had cancer during that time and I had to go on leave and I had to moving away from my husband and my son because the marriage has been strained for a long time.

Well, I stayed back up. the marriage has been strained for a long time.

Well, I stayed back up north for about a year,

and then I moved back down south because my son asked me to.

Worked for a year, and my doctor put me back out again because it's immune

system thing I kept picking up different stuff from the hospital and I got my

own place and I had to leave out of there because I couldn't go back to work and I ended up

back with the husband and the child and I wanted to leave for good and go back home.

There is a history of child abuse and a lot of abuse when I was younger and

I'm in therapy now and so my therapist was saying you know you need to put your

self first and I know my son needs me but

and also my grandmother that sounds south but it's just so much and I'm not able to

focus on myself.

I think you're going to have plenty of regrets later on to look back on and get therapy for

if you abandon your 15 year old.

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