Difficult conversations

[Tricky Dicky]

Ok, so I have a mother in her mid 70s, who has not got over losing my dad a year ago after Alzheimers - I know she's still on anti-depressants - and she is a bit dramatic, everything is either wonderful or terrible, so yesterday I had to tell her that I need a kindey transplant, something I've kept from her for a year. Not an easy conversation, I was terrified of telling her - although I had my sister for backup.

So, it got me thinking about what other difficult conversations people have had to do over the years. Over to you ...

 

[Hillian1]

Having to tell my wife that the specialist treating our daughter had told me that if the platelet enriched plasma replacement they were trying did not work there was nothing else they could do.

It worked by the way.

 

[Tricky Dicky]

Having to tell my wife that the specialist treating our daughter had told me that if the platelet enriched plasma replacement they were trying did not work there was nothing else they could do.

It worked by the way.

Yup, not easy. V.happy it worked out.

 

[Return of the Rev]

having to tell my wife that the specialist treating our daughter had told me that if the platelet enriched plasma replacement they were trying did not work there was nothing else they could do.

It worked by the way.

blooming eck! Can't imagine mate.

 

[Return of the Rev]

Telling my best mates girl friend and mother to be that i have just found him dead.

 

[Green Cross Code Man]

Like the Rev's in a way. Telling my mother that her mum had just died. Really terrible.

 

[life on mars 73]

Telling my wife of 25 years that I had just discovered her long-term affair with a bloke I knew very well......

 

[Twizzle]

Telling my girlfriend that I was seeing a foreign student, so she had to wait for 10 til she went home before I would see her again.
Nah just kidding, it was easy actually.

 

[Dominoid]

One of the things I deal with at work is a specialist travel insurance designed for people with pre-existing medical conditions so I have to regularly tell people that we're not able to cover them which isn't fun to have to do but I'm sure it's far worse for the people I have to let down.

 

[Return of the Rev]

On a lighter note trying to convince a Gillingham copper that the hat in my hand was mine and didn't belong to the following Gillingham fan hot on my heels,totally forgot my own hat was sitting on my head well it was 1977

 

[upthealbion1970]

Telling my now mrs her grandad died

Telling my son that mummy was in hospital again as she'd had another ms relapse

 

[bravohotelalpha]

I was trembling uncontrollably when I phoned my daughter who was in Australia during a gap year to tell her that her grandma , my mum, had bowel cancer.

It was a massive shock to us all, Mum had been very healthy throughout her life, clean living, healthy lifestyle etc and so last person we would have predicted to get ill. What made it even more difficult at the time was the travel insurance would have paid for my daughter to get back to UK if we (her parents) were seriously ill or died but not her grandparents (having said that we would have got her home somehow)

Thank God, the consultant oncologist and his team, the surgeon and his team and the oncology nurses at the EDGH - my Mum came through her cancer journey and has been clear for over four years

 

[Mowgli37]

Speaking to my best friend for the first time after we both realised that the girl he fancied and had been rejected by (they remain friends despite this) actually fancied me

 

[Chicken Runner61]

Telling a mate that was also an employee that the company he was leaving us to go to was deep in financial trouble and the director had 6 other companies all dormant ready as lifeboats to jump into when this one went bust.

He hadn't even found out who/which one he was actually working for even though if the job failed it would bring his whole personal life around him! He didn't listen and three months later BOOM!

 

[meeching gull]

Telling my dad his daughter had passed away 40 years after the event due to
really bad memory loss due to alchol abuse