Illness Is Derailing Our Retirement

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4.6 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2023

⏱️ 8 minutes

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While her husband struggles with long COVID, Anne is trying to stay hopeful that they will be able to enjoy their golden years doing the things they've dreamed of. 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.
0:03.0	You too can participate in my live radio program heard weekdays from 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern time on Sirius XM Triumph 111.
0:13.0	Anne, welcome to the program.
0:15.4	Thank you, Dr. Laura. How are you?
0:18.1	Excellent, thank you.
0:19.0	What's up?
0:20.0	Can I help you with?
0:21.4	Um, I, my husband. What can I help you with? My husband has been dealing with long COVID for six months now.
0:30.0	Wow.
0:31.0	And I need some advice on how best to support him.
0:39.0	I don't think that's your question.
0:46.7	Okay. Because you've been because you've been supporting him for six months. So I have. I have. What do you what do you really want to ask if you weren't so embarrassed to ask it?
0:57.0	Um, I feel really bad when I get impatient. Yeah. What else? I really do. I really do, but every day is
1:11.4	the same. Every day is the same, every day is the same when you go from being a really
1:16.8	robust physical and pretty good health person, although he's in his late 70s, to being able to, being tired walking from
1:29.1	the bedroom into the kitchen. It's pretty devastating. And what is the prognosis that you've been
1:39.3	given? Give it time.
1:47.0	There have been a medication here and there which has not done much. One of the symptoms besides the extreme
1:56.7	fatigue is a lot of dizziness. You know, go to see the ear nose and throat specialist.
2:06.0	They frankly don't know a lot of what to do, Dr. Laura.
2:10.0	Yeah, I suspect that's true, yeah.
2:13.0	So I'm trying to be...
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