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Parenting with Mesothelioma: Talking to My Children About My Diagnosis

As a parent, there will come a time when you will have to have serious talks with your children. As a parent, there will come a time when you will have to have serious talks with your children. No one ever prepares you for these discussions, and if there’s a manual out there I haven’t found it yet. These talks are pretty normal, and as a mom of four I knew they were bound to happen. But what I didn’t know was that one day I would be telling my kids I had mesothelioma cancer.