I have an extremely close relationship with my parents and younger brother. He has two children who I treat like my own. I also have two children and they are so close to my niece and nephew.
we had just found out that my nephew has sarcoma. It’s completely devastated us all. We don’t know what stage or the treatment plan yet.
I have been the practical one trying to keep everyone together. My parents can’t show my brother their pain so have turned to me. Every person that I love the most is hurting.
I have no idea how I’m going to tell me children. My eldest has huge anxiety and separation issues and her cousin is her best friend.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated
thank you
Hi AuntieL
Welcome to our community, I hope you find it both informative and supportive.
My name is Steve and I am one of the community champions. My experience of cancer is via my wife who has Leiomyosarcoma.
Something I found important as a first step is to try to understand my own emotions and in that I found looking at your feelings when someone has cancer quite helpful. Being able to understand our owm emotions and accepting them as part of a new normal can be a great start.
As you probably have heard sarcoma is quite a rare form of cancer, you can read more about it here and on the sarcoma uk website. You would also be welcome to join in with the conversations in the Soft tissue sarcomas forum .
Talking to children can be very important, we have some guidance on that here
Janice was treated with two rounds of chemotherapy, the second of these managed to render her cancer stable and it has been that way for over 10 years now. She says it is not bothering me and I am not bothering it.
<<hugs>>
Steve
