Grandma Needs to Do Whatever It Takes

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4.4 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Julie and her daughter have had a falling out and she's concerned about being able to see her grandchildren. Call 1-800-DR-LAURA / 1-800-375-2872 or make an appointment at DrLaura.com

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0:00.0	Thanks for listening to my call of the day podcast.
0:02.9	You can hear my live radio program Monday through Friday from 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern Time on Sirius XM Triumph 11.
0:11.4	Julie, welcome to the program.
0:13.9	Hi, Dr. Laura.
0:15.8	Hi.
0:16.0	Thank you for taking my call.
0:18.4	I will, I'm going to take a long story and try to make it as short as I can,
0:22.1	so please interrupt me and ask me any questions in between. My husband and I have been married
0:27.3	for 40 years. We have two grown children, both are married. Our daughter and son-in-law have
0:33.6	three children. Two of the three children, the two oldest, had severe life-threatening medical
0:41.5	problems when they were, the second one when she was born, the first one when he turned five,
0:49.4	he was diagnosed with genetic? Oh, no. Leukemia. No.
0:55.2	These, yeah.
0:57.8	At five, he was diagnosed with leukemia.
1:05.3	His sister was certain, let's see, she was three at the time, or not three, yeah, she was three at the time.
1:11.6	But when she was born, she was diagnosed with microcephaly to start out with, which they misdiagnosed. She ended up having epilepsy and a lot of other medical things that I won't go into because it's not pertinent to my question.
1:21.6	Anyways, and so she is, she's doing okay now.
1:30.0	I'll just leave it at that.
1:32.3	All the, they didn't expect her to live, but, and she is,
1:36.3	she's doing, she's doing everything they said that she would not do.
1:40.3	And, and I, I, I based that on how hard my daughter and son-in-law and the rest of the family have worked to help.
1:51.0	To help.
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