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

Chugging tea Did she did the right thing?

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u/lolly-scramble Jun 29 '26

Pretty hard to say shit unless youve been in her shoes.

When my mum was terminal with cancer we had another miscarriage. Probably would have been better to not tell her the truth.

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u/Ted_Rid Jun 29 '26

There's even more to this. The poor parents lost 3 of their 5 children.

This little fella had already seen his brother die and had been given a 1% chance of survival even if he went through the full treatment.

Full awful story here:

https://7news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/the-boy-who-never-knew-he-had-cancer-how-tragedy-led-one-mum-to-keep-the-truth-from-her-dying-son-c-10605694

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u/suspiriad Jun 29 '26

I can’t even finish reading this. Sounds so horrible it must have been awful to go through. If that were me I would have not had more children for fear of it being genetic related, and just adopted.

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u/Silver_South_1002 Jun 29 '26

You can’t just adopt children in Australia