Hi all,
I am new here.
One of my son's best friends has been diagnosed with stage 4 hepatoblastoma. He is 12 and he just started chemo. Of course the family is heartbroken and so are we.
For now, I am here for some advice on how best to help the family without being intrusive. A fundraiser has been set up to help ease some of the family financial worries during this time. We are in contact with them almost daily and keep we keep reassuring them we are here for them whatever they need. But I constantly feel like i'm not doing enough and in the same time, as I said, i do not want to be intrusive. Any advice would be greatly appreciated it. Thank you.
Hi and a warm welcome to our community though so sorry to hear about your son's friend.
A useful starting point is often working out our own emotions and if we look at Supporting a family member with cancer we can see how common your emotions are.
It might also help to look at Talking to children and teenagers - Macmillan Cancer Support as there are lots of useful tips there.
I am sure they will have already been linked up with a childrens cancer charity - there are quite a number as we can see in this list
A book you may well be able to get from your local library that people often leave good reviews of is Secret C: Straight Talking about Cancer
by Julie A. Stokes
Do come on here whenever you feel you want to, together we are stronger.
<<hugs>>
Steve
Hi Steve, thank you for the advice and the useful links 
