Moms take it REALLY hard! Dads and sisters are there to do what needs doing. I have no idea about brothers! Husbands can show a side of themselves heretofore untapped!
Children - no good way going about telling them. There's plenty of advice on how to break the news based on their ages. But I did decide that I wanted to know what their concept of cancer was before telling them of my diagnosis. If their one word reply to "What does cancer mean to you?" was "death", then that was going to completely change my approach. My 12 year old son's response was "smoking" - YEAH, our preaching about the evils of cigarettes had worked. My 14 year old daughter didn't have one, so that made it much easier. We told them at a "celebratory" dinner that I was a Stage II and my prognosis was great. It's amazing how quickly the conversation turned to the color of my future wigs!
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