Reply To: Doing Chesed With Mentchlichkeit

a mamin

This question is off-topic, but if you don’t mind sharing I’d appreciate it.

I’m just wondering if at some point the fear of relapse goes away. My family memeber who is sick was first diagnosed about five years ago, was in remission for a few years, and then relapsed a while ago. Hopefully, with the help of Hashem, she will go into remission soon. I just keep thinking about those years when she was in remission the first time around, and there was a point where I stopped worrying about it on a daily basis. When she relapsed it was twice as hard for me to deal with the blow than by the first diagnosis. Somehow I now feel that I’ll never be willing or able to put this behind me. What if….? Is this gonna be a permanent cloud of fear over my head for the rest of my life?

Don’t feel pressured to talk about it if you don’t want you. I was just wondering, since you’re b”H ten years past that parsha.

Either way, it made me smile to hear that the patient is healthy. Thanks for sharing.