My Husband is Dying

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4.4 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2023

⏱️ 8 minutes

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What's the best way for Kelly to help her husband cope with the news that he has stage 4 cancer? Email questions or comments: [email protected] - 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 radio program Monday through Friday from 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern time on serious XM.
0:10.0	Triumph 11. Kelly, welcome to the program.
0:14.0	Good afternoon, Dr. Laura. Thanks for taking my call and I'm hoping you can help me today.
0:20.0	Last week my husband was diagnosed with stage 4 metastatic cancer.
0:29.0	Oh, yeah.
0:32.0	And from the time that it was just two weeks ago today was our first doctor point with just the GP and this whole time I've been quite stoic and wanting to do the best thing for him.
0:48.0	If I was your friend, this was happening to me and you were stoic, I would think you didn't care.
0:55.0	Yeah.
0:56.0	I don't understand why you would imagine stoic is useful.
1:04.0	To keep it together.
1:07.0	You keeping it together. He's dying.
1:16.0	I just have a lot of fear and I know if I'm sure you do.
1:20.0	And so is he.
1:21.0	And so is he.
1:23.0	And you two need to talk about your fears to each other.
1:27.0	Your fears, his fears.
1:30.0	You have to talk about them.
1:32.0	Don't just walk around going, I'm cool.
1:36.0	Yeah.
1:38.0	No, you're not terrified.
1:42.0	Yeah.
1:43.0	He's been gone the last three days. His son got a master's ticket so they were in a gusty yesterday and being here by myself that made me realize what this is what it's going to be like.
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