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PTSD: “Haunted by a child’s illness”

From a 10/14/13 NY Times article and blog post written by Perri Klaas, MD Source: http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/14/haunted-by-a-childs-illness/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0 “A child’s serious illness can cast a very long shadow across a family, often for years after the crisis has passed. A mother sat in our clinic recently, crying because her older child was having trouble in school. She blamed herself. A couple of …

Born with cancer

Did you know a child can be born with cancer?

Having a child should be one of the most joyous times of your life. For the family in this picture, the joy was tempered by fear and emotional pain after hearing that their newborn baby had cancer. Imagine how difficult it was for her to smile in this moment…