Dear Annie: I don’t normally write in, but your advice to “Balancing Burdens,” the woman who was on the fence about telling her stressed and busy daughter about the recurrence of her cancer, was spot-on. To this day, I regret that I was not with my mother when she died from heart disease.

It was Christmas, so I was busy with a thousand things and I didn’t think it was a big deal that she was going to the hospital for a “minor heart procedure.” She never woke up, leaving my dad - who was suffering from Parkinson’s - alone to cope. I wish I had known, and after that, I vowed to always be honest with my son and daughter about my health. - Miss My Mom

Dear Miss My Mom: Thank you for sharing your story. Even when people have good intentions behind their silence, like wanting to spare thos

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