My Sister Let Me Down When I Needed Her Most

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4.6 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Susan is confused why her sister wouldn't come to her side and help her after she was rear ended in a deadly car accident. 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 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. Triumph 111.
0:11.0	Susan, welcome to the program.
0:14.0	Hi, thank you for taking my call.
0:17.0	You're welcome. What can I help you with?
0:21.0	Well, I had a car accident, never had an accident in my life. I did home care, physical therapy, for 32 years. I don't want to make myself out to be a thing. Certainly not.
0:37.0	Whoa, whoa, whoa, it took, it's 32 years and you haven't healed from your injuries?
0:42.8	No, no, I did physical therapy as a career, home care, driving and I've never been in an accident
0:49.6	and sorry.
0:51.6	So, what kind of accident ma'am what kind of accident did you get into?
0:57.0	I was sitting at a red light just sitting there and a guy hit me at about 50 miles an hour and yeah from the
1:10.5	rear and I had my husband in the car and my little dog and they were not injured. My husband was a little sore, but I developed a 6mm brain bleed subdural, hematoma.
1:30.0	And anyway, I developed amnesia for about 12 hours and it was taken to a trauma center in Florida. and for 12 hours apparently I asked for my sister every five minutes and my husband would call my sister and apparently I asked her to come to the hospital.
2:01.0	She never came to the hospital.
2:05.0	So after I came out of amnesia and I was released from ICU I'm fine now.
2:15.0	I after a week or I guess about a week went by I said to my husband
2:20.0	why didn't my sister come if I asked for her for 12 hours and he said I don't know why?
2:32.3	So I called her. I didn't get angry, I didn't get nasty, and I said to her, my husband tells me that I asked for you for 12 hours and he called you. Why didn't you come see me? And she said,
2:52.0	and she said I this is exactly what she said I don't have an excuse I'm
3:00.9	sorry and I love you and it we were so close our whole lives.
3:13.2	And I said to her, if I, if she was one hour from me, one hour, and I said to her, if I would have been in Europe and that happened to you a brain...
3:28.7	You're on the wrong track.
3:30.3	Susan, you're on the wrong track.
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