Not because she didn’t want to, but because she was advised by a specific askan not to tell her family
This is super awkward for me, but I don’t want to chas v’shalom hold resentments, and I really need to get this off my chest, so I decided to share by way of this letter. I hope you take it in the right way.
Baruch Hashem, after a number of years, I finally have good news to share. Unfortunately, this has come along with a number of health issues that have caused my condition to be noticeable much earlier than I would have chosen to announce it. It also puts me in a precarious medical situation, and we were told by someone close to us that all should go well in the zechus that we don’t talk about it, as there is brachah in that which is hidden. We were even instructed not to share the news with our parents, something that is gut-wrenching.
We stuck it out. We didn’t share our news, even when we were falling apart and really could have used the support. Yes, we were eventually given the go-ahead to inform our parents of our situation, but we were reminded not to speak about it at all to anyone else — when people see, they see.
You can imagine that after this amount of time waiting for such news, of course we wanted to share our good fortune with you! And yet we understand that if we want to have what to share, our mandate is to keep silent. It was hard. But we’ve done so.
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