Refresher: I Wasn't There For My Dad's Death

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🗓️ 29 May 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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From my Call of the Day archives; Donald was recovering from COVID when his dad was admitted to the hospital for heart surgery, and he regrets not being there when his dad unexpectedly died. Searching for advice? Call 1-800-DR-LAURA / 1-800-375-2872 or make an appointment at DrLaura.com

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0:00.0	Time now for a refresher from my Dr. Laura Call of the Day archives.
0:04.7	Remember, you can hear my live radio program weekdays 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern Time on Sirius XM Triumph,
0:13.0	2011.
0:16.3	Donald, welcome to the program.
0:18.7	Hi, Dr. Laura.
0:20.5	Thank you for taking my call.
0:22.6	Thank you.
0:23.6	What's up?
0:24.6	I don't know where to start, really.
0:28.6	I had COVID in December, the first week of December of 2020,
0:35.6	and my father had open heart surgery on December 31st of that month.
0:43.3	And I wasn't able to be at his surgery even though I wanted to be there.
0:50.3	I was still recovering from COVID.
0:52.3	I had it pretty bad, although I didn't have any
0:55.7	breathing issues or anything. And I talked to my father the night before because I wanted to be there.
1:02.0	He told me to stay home, not to try to be there because I wasn't, I lived like a hundred miles away from where the surgery was going to be.
1:15.6	So I wasn't sure that I was up to driving that far.
1:18.6	So he told me to stay home and take care of myself.
1:23.6	And the surgery at the time, I had, well, the night before, I had a very, very bad feeling that the surgery wasn't going to go well.
1:38.3	And the surgery went well, they said he had a valve that was being replaced.
1:46.0	He had an abscess from valve, and it was being replaced.
1:50.7	And he come out of the surgery okay, but he never recovered.
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