Telling my niece her grandad only has weeks to live

Hi and welcome to the Online Community, although I am so sorry to see the circumstance that brought you here.

This is a hard time for you and all of the family but talking with people who are on the same journey will help a lot.

I have no experience to bring to you but we do have these forums where you can connect with others supporting family and friends through their cancer journey: Carers Forum and Friends and Family Forum and Supporting someone with incurable cancer

Follow the links and join the groups. To do this hit the ‘Join the Group’ tab just under the main group name. At this point go to the right on the group home page and select how you want to receive email notifications when someone answers your posts. If in the future you don’t want to receive notifications just switch off the email notifications tab.

You can look through all the discussions in the forum by hitting the ‘Discussions’ tab. But the BEST WAY to get support is to go to the 'Start a Discussion' tab just under the main group name. Set up your own Discussion and Introduce yourself to the group - you could just copy an paste what you have in this first post.

We have this booklet Talking to Children and Teenagers about Cancer

You may find our various Macmillan Support Line Services on 0808 808 00 00 to be very helpful covering Emotional Support and Practical Information. Clinical Information and Financial Support and Work Guidance mostly open 8.00 to 8.00 but check the link.

All the best to you.

Thanks Mike I suggested my sister speaks to the school as you suggested . I agree that we need to be honest as all her cousins know as they are all in there 20s so I think it would be hard to keep it from her .

((Hugs)) all round x