Woman with early-stage cancer reluctant to tell 100-year-old mother
She’s told close family about an early, likely curable cancer but is hesitant to inform her frail, 100-year-old mother and can’t risk flying across five states to help her.
DEAR ABBY: I have cancer. I have been expecting to be diagnosed with it since I was a teen. It is my family’s disease.
My mother is 100 and still has her faculties, but she is frail. I have shared the diagnosis with my children, and I assume they told my grandchildren. My husband and my best friend know of my condition. The doctors say that because I caught the cancer very early, they expect a cure and are not just prolonging my life.