The Balancing Act: Siblings dealing with childhood cancer
- OPACC
- May 26, 2015
- 1 min read
When our 2 year old son was diagnosed with brain cancer, a dear doctor friend, asked how our other children were handling the new diagnosis. When I expressed concern that we were seeing lots of anxiety and some other issues of sadness and anger, our friend uttered a truth that I had never thought about before, “When one member of the family has cancer, you all have cancer.”
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