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Telling your children
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Tips for talking to children about blood cancer diagnosis. Telling your children and grandchildren about blood cancer and treatment options.
Talking to family and friends
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You may be asking yourself what to do or how much to reveal. Some people with cancer choose to tell their loved ones only. Others find it helps when other people they have regular contact with also know about their diagnosis. You may find it difficult to do so, but it will allow…
First Connection Peer Support Program
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You are not alone. Sometimes, you may feel completely alone and maybe even misunderstood by your family and friends during your cancer experience. When it happens, it can feel unsettling and isolating, but it is understandable. For those days when it seems like the people who…
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Adjusting to a new normal
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When cancer ends, your life after cancer begins. Your perspective on life, your role in society and your feelings about yourself and others may be different now than before your cancer experience.
Healthcare management
David Senac
Ontario
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In April 2006, as I just turned 25, I was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia type 2 after experiencing extreme fatigue, very pale skin and unusual loss of weight.
Katerina Zoï Sita
Quebec
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When I was 19 years old, I was diagnosed with non-hodgkins lymphoma. No matter how old you are, hearing that you have cancer comes as an absolute shock.
Amelia Saunders
Atlantic
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Life was turned upside down in an instant when Amelia was diagnosed with blood cancer at only 2.5 years old in 2018. It changed the trajectory of her childhood, of her preschool years.
Shannon Marsh
Ontario
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I have been participating in Light The Night for three years. Three years ago my daughter Paige was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia.
David Young
Atlantic
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On March 17th, 2017 life as we knew it would change forever. David was diagnosed with cancer, Burkitt’s Leukemia to be exact.
Gracie
Atlantic
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It was three days before Gracie’s first birthday in 2014, we would receive the most devastating news that a family could ever receive that our sweet baby girl had blood Cancer. She was diagnosed with AML (Acute Myeloid Leukemia)