When a parent gets cancer, what about the kids?

Nicola Dady set up a UK charity after seeing the impact her diagnosis had on her children

When Nicola Dady was diagnosed with an aggressive form of kidney and bladder cancer, her first thought was not of herself but her children.

“My first feeling was, oh my God, what’s going to happen to them,” says Dady, a Londoner and single mother to two small children. “All I could think about was them. I didn’t want to die before my kids know who I am. Corey was only three at the time, and I thought if I die he’s not going to remember me at all.”

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from The Guardian https://ift.tt/2Px04W4