It’s fairly typical that siblings of a child with cancer in the family get a raw deal. The ones that are healthy and still need attention from parents and other adults in their lives may think they are overlooked, and are a lot of the times, that’s the case however, never intentional. It’s because the kid with a cancer diagnosis and all its craziness that turns families upside down, trumps the healthy kid(s) every time (or most every time). At least that is what I saw in my e

Being a sibling to a cancer patient is quite difficult. They miss out on having their sibling and parents at home more than they ever should have to endure—and probably endure way more things than I will ever fully know. Treatments have changed, and the COVID pandemic put the kibosh on many long hospitalizations, even when a sick child has low blood counts. That was never the case for our family, though I’m happy that kids can stay home way more in today’s childhood cancer wo

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