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My friend who used to be my brother's girl friend for about 16 years and have been exes for years now altho remain very good friends.
She told me the other night in extreme confidentiality that she was not to tell me, my sister or other brothers that he has leukemia. He has has it for about 1 year and so he tells her that he goes to oncology and consultant gives him a tablet. That is all I know and I am allowed to know.
The confidentiality has to remain as my friend wakened up in a big sweat that night frightened that I may have told someone and so I know the extent of the confidentiality and swore to me not to tell anybody. Now that has really upset me and depressed me because I can neither tell nor do anything about it.
Anybody reassure me here. He is 70 but quite a young one. Thanks for any replies.
She told me the other night in extreme confidentiality that she was not to tell me, my sister or other brothers that he has leukemia. He has has it for about 1 year and so he tells her that he goes to oncology and consultant gives him a tablet. That is all I know and I am allowed to know.
The confidentiality has to remain as my friend wakened up in a big sweat that night frightened that I may have told someone and so I know the extent of the confidentiality and swore to me not to tell anybody. Now that has really upset me and depressed me because I can neither tell nor do anything about it.
Anybody reassure me here. He is 70 but quite a young one. Thanks for any replies.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.not sure if I can reassure you but you have to repect both your brother's wishes for you not to know and your friend telling you a huge confidentiality. What I would suggest is that you make the most of however long your brother has left. Also, the prognosis may not be accurate and he could have much longer than a year. At the end of the day, none of us know how long we have. Don't make it obvious but do what we should all be doing - make the most of today.
Sorry connemmara, but why did she tell you? She has broken a huge confidence with your brother. If it were me then I would be so upset that I had confided in someone but they had broken the confidence expressly to someone I didn't want to know. Are you sure that it's true? - you have very limited information and only this friend's word for it.