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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think it’s strange that you think your DH is expected to keep secret from his own mom that your mom has cancer.  Your focus on private health information is not normal in my experience.  Cancer isn’t usually a secret.[/quote]

My dad had prostate cancer. He told me, my sibling, and my mother. My mother is a chronic oversharer and explicitly forbade her from telling anyone about it. He did not want to deal with people asking him about it, thinking about it, anything. He didn’t even want us to tell our spouses, but did relent on that because it would have been super strange to keep saying, no we can’t visit for x reason. When the real reason was he felt like crap and didn’t want visitors during treatment. My mother would have told the world and it would have stressed him out immensely.[/quote]

Thank you.  Also, don't a lot of people have a tendency to look at someone with a terminal disease a bit differently and some people don't want to be treated differently.  They just want to live their life like normal for a while.  [/quote]

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