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Where Do I Draw the Line?

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4.46K Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Jackie is not sure that she will continue to help her aunt who is going against medical advice and not taking proper care of her health. 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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radio program Monday through Friday from 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern time on

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serious xm. Triumph 111.

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Jackie welcome to the program. Hi Dr Laura, thanks for taking my call.

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Thank you. I'm calling today because I wanted your opinion or guidance on an issue I'm having with an aunt. I have an aunt that I've had a pretty close relationship with since my mother passed away. So I'm 57 and my mom passed away when I was about 35.

0:41.0

So the aunt is my father's sister. She doesn't have any of her own children. So I always felt like I was, she was sort of my mom, mom sort of not exactly like a mom but close to it and she was do you have a husband and children I do I've been married for 35 years I have two children they're 28 and 25 and she

1:09.4

she was supposed to have grandchildren do you have whoa whoa

1:12.3

grandchildren no grandchildren no grandchildren Do you have grandchildren? No grandchildren.

1:14.0

No grandchildren.

1:15.0

Okay, go ahead.

1:17.0

So, she doesn't live in the same state that I live in,

1:21.0

so I live in Pennsylvania and she lived in Maryland and what we you

1:27.4

know would before she was she's older now and before you know she would come visit me and I would go visit her with

1:36.3

her without the kids and we continued that as she got older she's had a lot of health issues, but she's also kind of a very

1:46.2

stubborn personality. Like she doesn't really like to take care of herself, health-wise. She doesn't really like to take care of herself help-wise.

1:54.1

She doesn't really like to do, like she has diabetes, she has hard issues and

1:58.4

and a couple things.

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And, you know, so she's gotten older and of course the problems have gotten worse and, you know, been trying to help her as much as I can.

2:10.0

And recently I was there for four days because she wasn't feeling well and she wasn't, we think

2:18.6

she wasn't taking her medication, she was not eating, but she doesn't eat well anyway.

2:24.0

And when I got there, she was not in good shape and she kept falling.

2:30.0

At night, she fell like every hour the first night I was there and she didn't want me she wanted me to get her up

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