Kate Middleton Had to Tell Her Kids About Her Cancer Diagnosis. These Parents Know What That ’ s Like

After weeks of fevered speculation, Catherine, Princess of Wales, revealed on Mar. 22 that she was absent from the public eye not because she was having marital problems or growing out a bad haircut, but because she was being treated for cancer. She and her husband had, she said, “taken time to explain everything to George, Charlotte and Louis in a way that is appropriate for them, and to reassure them that I am going to be OK.” Even before her announcement, however, many cancer survivors who were also parents had already guessed at the truth. The silence and delay tactics looked familiar, because they had done the same thing when they got their own diagnosis. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] “When you hear cancer, you just think, ‘Oh, my goodness, I’m going to die,'” says Shambi Broome of Columbia, S.C., who was diagnosed at age 46 with colon cancer after a routine scan in 2022. “And then the next thought is, ‘Wow, how do I tell my kids?'” Broome, who didn’t know the full extent of her cancer until after she had an operation, waited until she was told she’d need chemotherapy before mentioning the C-word to her children, who were 13 and 18 at the time. Instead she told them she was having a part of her colon removed. “I didn’t want to tell them anything until I could give them a full story,” she says. “I didn’t know what I would be preparing them for and I didnR...
Source: TIME: Health - Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Tags: Uncategorized Cancer Source Type: news