Refresher: Should I Tell My Mom My Cancer Has Returned?

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🗓️ 24 April 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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From my Call of the Day archives; Virginia's not sure she should worry her ill, 86-year-old mother with the news of her possible cancer diagnosis. 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, 2011.
0:16.4	Virginia, welcome to the program.
0:19.4	Hello, Dr. Laura.
0:21.2	Hi.
0:22.1	What can I do for you?
0:23.2	In 2017, I was diagnosed with ovarian cancer and had surgery.
0:31.9	And ever since then, my blood tests have been normal until I got a phone call December 16th
0:42.7	from my oncologist saying that my C-125 has elevated above normal.
0:53.3	And I've had three blood tests and a cat scan since then.
0:57.9	And they can't see anything on my cat scan to verify where that cancer might have spread to.
1:08.5	I have my mother, who is quite fragile. She's 86 years old. So I'm just wondering if I should
1:19.8	when you say she's very fragile. What does that mean? She's her youngest son three years ago passed away from meningitis my uncle six months after that
1:36.2	you're telling me you're telling me tragedies but you're not telling me what makes her fragile
1:40.8	we can go through a lot of tragedies and not be fragile. Certainly upset,
1:45.5	but not necessarily fragile. Two years ago, just before the pandemic, my mom fell in her kitchen,
1:55.7	broke her neck, her shoulder, and her back. Oh, sorry, not her back for him. And spent quite a few months.
2:05.6	Okay, you haven't answered my question. What makes you think she's fragile? She's had a lot of
2:13.3	tragedies, but that doesn't mean she's too fragile to mother her daughter.
2:28.2	I just came from her house wanting to put her, she's got to go into a home.
2:32.8	Okay. I'm not going to ask the question again, because you just keep running away.
2:36.0	If you don't want to tell your mother, don't tell your mother.
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