My mom went on vacation to a foreign country were she became very ill. They found brain tumors and told us the family and kept it from her. She was in a really delicate state...hardly coherent. So she has no clue. Four months later she was able to return to Texas and needs to go to the doctor. We were told by MD Anderson that she will have to find out. They don't hold anything back from the patient. Thats what i was afraid of. How do we break that to her? Please help!!!
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Don't tell her! Let the medical experts break the news to her. She will have many questions and her doctor will be able to answer them, you won't.
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I would leave up to the doctor to say all that. they are very comforting and it will probably be better than you tellling her that. You can try your best to talk to her, make her feel better. I hope she recovers. :(
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Best to let the Medicals carry that burden ,however YOU be there for that much needed Support
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She deserves to know the truth as soon as possible. Why this information has been withheld from her is wrong. An adult of sound mind has a right to know the truth about their medical condition. Either the news can come from those she loves or from her doctors, it doesn't matter as long as she as told sooner rather than later. It is almost impossible to keep this type of information from a patient anyway . . you wouldn't want a neighbor to slip up and mention it . . than she might lose all trust in her family for 'hiding' this from her. Tell her. How do you tell her . . you sit down and start the hardest conversation you have ever had . . and you do it out of love and respect for her.
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I'm with Panda. I cannot understand how the prior doctors withheld that information from an adult patient. The doctors should be the one to break that news.
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I agree with everyone above who says that it is up to the doctor to break the news to the patient. I just want to add that my mother was treated for lung cancer at M.D. Anderson, and it's probably the best place in the country, if not the whole world, to be treated for cancer. All the doctors, nurses, and other personnel there are very competent and compassionate, and they have all the most up-to-date treatments and technology. Good luck with your mother.
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