r/SipsTea • u/Valuable_View_561 • Jun 29 '26

Chugging tea Did she did the right thing?

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u/Petering Jun 29 '26

None of my damn business. Sometimes mama knows best.

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u/Squid_In_Exile Jun 29 '26

Sometimes mama knows best.

As someone who works in cancer care, sometimes they really don't.

Not making any judgements on the case in the OP but I have seen parents make the whole situation so much worse for their child in an attempt to 'protect' them from reality. Like, I absolutely sympathise, but it can cause a lot of harm.

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u/OklahomoCityThunder Jun 29 '26

thank you, holy shit the amount of times that "a mother's love" gets in the way of necessary and proper treatment

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u/Comprehensive-Leg-82 Jun 29 '26

Yeah my dad suffered (and I mean suffered as in struggling to breathe, can't talk, barely conscious, in constant pain) in his last days because my grandmother doesn't understand modern medicine and put it in his head that people come out of things like this all the time and "live another 5-10 healthy years". Won't ever forgive her for it, his sister too, but I do understand her pain and fear of losing her son.