How Illness Changes the Sibling Relationship
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
When Marie Brenner’s brother was diagnosed with a terminal illness, she was forced to reevaluate their relationship, which had often been tense and difficult. She writes about it in her new book, Apples and Oranges: My Brother and Me, Lost and Found.
Event: Marie Brenner will be speaking with Bliss Broyard
Thursday, June 12 at 6:30 pm
Madison Square Park, Farragut Monument
25th Street (between 5th Avenue and Madison)
Weigh in: Tell us if serious illness has changed your relationship with a sibling.
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Comments [6]
I fail to see what Bliss Broyard has to do with this topic - unless you consider her book's relevation that she is determined to make her Creole (mixed white) father "black" while her brother (logically) sees him as a white person of mixed ancestry (like part-Indian whites).
but sometimes the best thing u can do for yourself is get poison family memebers out of ur life
losing one of the "minnows" will give you that perspective really fast.
I HAVE LOST 3 SIBLINGS IN MY LIFETIME. I NOW MAKE IT A POINT TO KEEP IN TOUCH WITH THE REMAINING 3, AND TRY NOT TO JUDGE THEM AND ACCEPT THEM FOR WHO THEY ARE
I find it rather interesting.
My oldest brother and I (16 years older) have become much closer since his diagnosis of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in 1994. He and his wife have a daughter and son. Thanks to great medical treatment and luck he has far outlived his original diagnosis.
We have become even closer since his wife was diagnosed with multiple myeoloma in 2002 and died in 2006.
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