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Juggling it all… a child with cancer and a newborn
A diagnosis of childhood cancer turns a family’s world upside-down. So does bringing home a newborn. Angela’s family had both.
At 39 weeks pregnant with her third child, Angela received a phone call from her husband telling her that their seven-year-old son Henry had been diagnosed with leukaemia.
Angela shares how she juggled Henry’s cancer treatment with the needs of a newborn baby, and how Henry is going nearly two years after treatment ended.
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