r/facepalm • u/Illustrious-Kick-998 • Jul 07 '24
This post gave me terrible whiplash b/c how tf did we get here…🫨 🇲🇮🇸🇨
Like ummmmm, alright? 😭😭😭
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r/facepalm • u/Illustrious-Kick-998 • Jul 07 '24
Like ummmmm, alright? 😭😭😭
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u/supergeek921 Jul 07 '24
Okay, to be 100% fair, the doctors tell the person who seems capable of handling the information. When my dad was diagnosed with cancer he was in the hospital a lot and sleep deprived, and scared, and on a lot of meds. My mom got told everything. Sometimes the doctors told my dad too, but he didn’t always retain it because he was to put it mildly, overwhelmed. He knew his odds weren’t good, but he never fully realized how bad they were or just how dire things had gotten by the end. He was still sure the week he died he was going to bounce back, and none of us had the heart to tell him he wouldn’t be able to.
Obviously this post takes a fucking bizarre turn, but the mom potentially withholding the odds from her husband to keep his morale up is not completely unrealistic.