Childhood Cancers
Discussion List
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when survivors leave home
i am new to this list, but not new to childhood cancers. My daughter was diagnosed in 1992 with ALL when she was 21 months old. What a struggle is was, suffereing from a near deadly fungal infection for a very long time. There are some lasting effects, but hey she is here!! Well she is getting ready to graduate from high…
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grief in child cancer survivors
I am the mother of a four-and-a-half year old with neurofibromatosis type 1. She has survived an aneurysm, a stroke, brain surgery, an optic nerve glioma and 15 months of chemotherapy, from age 18mths to almost three. Her tumor was considered to be benign, but was inside the skull and growing and threatening her eyesight.…