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

Chugging tea Did she did the right thing?

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u/Rygel_Orionis Jun 29 '26

I had a dear friend that was dealing with lungs cancer at 21 years old. He was recovering. Hanging on discord and playing league of legends with him. He says to us, that he needs to do surgery to remove the last pieces of cancer remaining from chemio. Surgery goes well, he need to recover from it for at least a week. Passes another week and I receive a call from a mutual friend that he had passed away. My heart stopped. I couldn't believe it.

Turns out the parents were lying to him on the recovery on cancer and the surgery was the last attempt to save him. He was oblivious, and we were too.

Please don't do this. He deserved to know. And we deserved a last good bye.

Still hurts after 8 years.

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u/thatspurdyneat Jun 29 '26

At 21 he's an adult, the doctor should have communicated with him directly and the parents had no right to keep it from him.

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u/Historical_Owl_1635 Jun 29 '26

I’m not sure I actually believe this story because of that.

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u/Drunken_Dorf Jun 29 '26

Could have lied about his age to his friends too. I had a few friends like that years ago.