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Difficult conversations



Tricky Dicky

Tricky Dicky

New member
Jul 27, 2004
13,558
Sunny Shoreham
Ok, so I have a mother in her mid 70s, who has not got over losing my dad a year ago after Alzheimers - I know she's still on anti-depressants - and she is a bit dramatic, everything is either wonderful or terrible, so yesterday I had to tell her that I need a kindey transplant, something I've kept from her for a year. Not an easy conversation, I was terrified of telling her - although I had my sister for backup.

So, it got me thinking about what other difficult conversations people have had to do over the years. Over to you ...
 




Hillian1

Hillian1

( . ) ( . )
Jul 15, 2010
15,364
Struggling for breath at the top of the stairs
Having to tell my wife that the specialist treating our daughter had told me that if the platelet enriched plasma replacement they were trying did not work there was nothing else they could do.

It worked by the way.
 


Tricky Dicky

Tricky Dicky

New member
Jul 27, 2004
13,558
Sunny Shoreham
Hillian1 said:
Having to tell my wife that the specialist treating our daughter had told me that if the platelet enriched plasma replacement they were trying did not work there was nothing else they could do.

It worked by the way.
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Yup, not easy. V.happy it worked out.
 












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Twizzle

New member
Aug 12, 2010
1,240
Telling my girlfriend that I was seeing a foreign student, so she had to wait for 10 til she went home before I would see her again.
Nah just kidding, it was easy actually.
 




Dominoid

Dominoid

Albion fan in Devon
Jan 6, 2011
557
Plymouth, United Kingdom
One of the things I deal with at work is a specialist travel insurance designed for people with pre-existing medical conditions so I have to regularly tell people that we're not able to cover them which isn't fun to have to do but I'm sure it's far worse for the people I have to let down.
 




upthealbion1970

upthealbion1970

bring on the trumpets....
NSC Patron
Jan 22, 2009
8,865
Woodingdean
Telling my now mrs her grandad died

Telling my son that mummy was in hospital again as she'd had another ms relapse
 




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bravohotelalpha

Well-known member
Jan 23, 2011
2,642
Good Old Sussex By The Sea
I was trembling uncontrollably when I phoned my daughter who was in Australia during a gap year to tell her that her grandma , my mum, had bowel cancer.

It was a massive shock to us all, Mum had been very healthy throughout her life, clean living, healthy lifestyle etc and so last person we would have predicted to get ill. What made it even more difficult at the time was the travel insurance would have paid for my daughter to get back to UK if we (her parents) were seriously ill or died but not her grandparents (having said that we would have got her home somehow)

Thank God, the consultant oncologist and his team, the surgeon and his team and the oncology nurses at the EDGH - my Mum came through her cancer journey and has been clear for over four years
 


Mowgli37

Mowgli37

Enigmatic Asthmatic
Jan 13, 2013
6,371
Sheffield
Speaking to my best friend for the first time after we both realised that the girl he fancied and had been rejected by (they remain friends despite this) actually fancied me
 


Chicken Runner61

Chicken Runner61

We stand where we want!
May 20, 2007
4,609
Telling a mate that was also an employee that the company he was leaving us to go to was deep in financial trouble and the director had 6 other companies all dormant ready as lifeboats to jump into when this one went bust.

He hadn't even found out who/which one he was actually working for even though if the job failed it would bring his whole personal life around him! He didn't listen and three months later BOOM!
 




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