Hi @Jon , I'm sorry to hear about your wife's illness. Being terrified in these situations is perfectly normal. Everybody is. You said "from what I understand, this is a fatal disease over a long enough time frame". Just to start the obvious, but everything is fatal over a long enough time frame. Try not to assume the worst case if you don't have the facts. Is this what the doctors/surgeons. have told you? If not, ask them directly. I'm not trying to suggest you wife isn't ill, but it can all be over whelming, and sometimes we can just forget to ask the right questions of the doctors/surgeons. How old is your son? When I was diagnosed with cancer we had a relatively direct conversation with my primary school aged children. thanks, s
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