I Want My Mom to Help My Dad

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🗓️ 8 December 2023

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Andrea's mom moved close to her a few years ago. The problem is that she left her husband behind. Now that Andrea's father is having some medical issues, she is concerned that her mother is not running to her father's side. 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 downloading my call of the day podcast. You too can participate in my live radio program
0:06.8	heard weekdays from 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern time on Sirius XM Triumph 111. Andrea, welcome to the program.
0:15.0	Hi.
0:16.0	Hi.
0:17.0	What's up?
0:18.0	Hi.
0:19.0	So I have a dilemma.
0:21.0	My brother and I after college moved out of state about 12 hours away, just kind of coincidentally to the same area, 12 hours away from my parents. Since then we've gotten married we've had
0:35.7	children so my mom has two kids and seven grandbabies far away from her. But she retired about eight years ago and you know she's one of those
0:48.4	grandma she doesn't want to miss the first day she doesn't want to miss a birthday anything like that so about three years ago her
0:55.7	and my dad decided to buy a condo close to us but my dad does not particularly like our area.
1:06.9	So he stays home.
1:09.4	It's like where we grew up.
1:11.9	And my mom spends 90% of her time down here and so which is not I don't think that's very normal to begin with which is a problem in and of itself but about a month and a half ago we set my dad to get some testing done because he was having some lapses in memory and judgment and just making some comments here and there and then he was also having a hard time moving around.
1:43.4	We went to neurologists.
1:44.9	We since found out he's had two strokes and it was and it's hit both sides of his
1:51.5	brain and one of the spots in his brain is like deep inside that
1:57.0	will cause dementia.
1:59.7	Oh gosh.
2:01.9	Yes, now if that was my husband and my husband hopes that I would do that for him,
2:09.4	I'd be on the next plane there. My dad, my mom still has not gone to see him.
2:16.4	May, may I interject here.
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