MinnieTink
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I'm just looking for any advice, experience and words of encouragement. My son completed Kindergarten in June and has a classmate with a horrific brain cancer called DIPG. It is a cancer of the brainstem that affects young children. There is a 90+% death rate within 18 months I think. Maybe it's two years. Whatever. It's a parents' nightmare. His classmate was diagnosed in Spring of 2012. She did the best she could in school and at the time was able to run and play somewhat. Unfortunately this disease has begin it's terrible progression and she is bedridden and mostly paralyzed. I know there will come a time to have a difficult conversation with my young son. Do I start now? Do I prepare him? He has been to his grandfather and uncles funerals in the past year and a half so he gets what death is but this is a different ball game, being that it's one of his peers.
Thanks for any words. Please pray for J.
Thanks for any words. Please pray for J.