My Question of the Day: Dealing with health issues isn’t easy for the person who is unwell or the people who love him/her. Imagine that a close relative/friend has been chronically ill for many, many months, but he/she didn’t tell anyone or ask for anyone’s help or support. One day, at what seems out of the blue, you’re close relative/friend is hospitalized and not expected to leave with his/her life. How does finding out that he/she has struggled with his/her situation all alone all this time make you feel and/or what do you say/do at this point?

My 2 Cents: It’s amazing how many of us would feel sorry for ourselves in a situation like this. Let me explain.

Some of us would think, “I can’t believe he/she didn’t trust me enough to share this information with me. How could he/she do this to me?”

Sigh.

I hope this would not be my thoughts. All I can do is be there for my loved one now, and I’m not going to waste more time trying to figure out why he/she didn’t tell me. I want to believe I’ll say, “How can I help you now?” I want to believe I would make the most of the time that’s left.

Anything else would just be counterproductive.

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Take a few moments to check out the tweets from Twitter on this subject:

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JoshDamage I’d feel a myriad of emotions. But mainly I’d feel sad this person felt they had to go thru such a crisis alone.

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