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Aug. 7th, 2006 07:02 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
llywelaBack to work post-weekend...
My friend Moll goes up to Ponty to look after the grandchildren today while Kerry has her surgery - always supposing it doesn't get cancelled at the last minute. The children don't know she's got cancer; they think she's having a cyst removed.
Personally, at 11 and 12, I think they should have been told the truth. It doesn't have to be terrifying if talked through properly, and would save having to admit later that they lied. Which they are going to have to do - I know they don't want the boys worrying about the c-word while Kerry has the operation, but she is going to have to have treatment afterward, and they can't hide that. Far better to face it together as a family.
But that's just what I think, and it isn't my family so not my place to say so. I'll just wait to hear from Molly how it went and then when she gets home will no doubt hear all the gory details. She was getting kind of stressed about it last week, as baby Joseph has been very poorly lately, and her husband Tony has been an even bigger pain than usual - he's a chronic alcoholic and is in a residential home now as she couldn't cope with him at home. Never rains but it pours, no?
My friend Moll goes up to Ponty to look after the grandchildren today while Kerry has her surgery - always supposing it doesn't get cancelled at the last minute. The children don't know she's got cancer; they think she's having a cyst removed.
Personally, at 11 and 12, I think they should have been told the truth. It doesn't have to be terrifying if talked through properly, and would save having to admit later that they lied. Which they are going to have to do - I know they don't want the boys worrying about the c-word while Kerry has the operation, but she is going to have to have treatment afterward, and they can't hide that. Far better to face it together as a family.
But that's just what I think, and it isn't my family so not my place to say so. I'll just wait to hear from Molly how it went and then when she gets home will no doubt hear all the gory details. She was getting kind of stressed about it last week, as baby Joseph has been very poorly lately, and her husband Tony has been an even bigger pain than usual - he's a chronic alcoholic and is in a residential home now as she couldn't cope with him at home. Never rains but it pours, no?
