Hello all you Awesome people. Here is another Q&A for you.

Sam and Kingsley want to know:

How are my children dealing with me having cancer?

Firstly, how did I go about telling them? Lets just say I didn’t gather them up and say:” Daddy’s got cancer and might die.” For one, dying from this cancer was never an option for me. Generally I try to be straight up and tell my children the truth, that’s why they never believed in Santa Clause or The Tooth fairy. I find it very surprising that parents expect their children not to lie to them, but then lie to their children by telling them silly stories like the tooth fairy. So you can lie but the children are expected not to, how does that work? Sorry, bit of a tangent there, back to the topic. 🙂 I just told them that I am really sick and It’s going to take awhile for me to get better. They could obviously tell I was not well, as I had no energy like I used have.

As the weeks went by and I was researching my options, they also knew that I was totally against having chemo. I think that perhaps had the greatest impact on them, when they learned that I was going to get chemo. As I most likely mentioned in conversation that chemo kills more people than cancer. I know that they were concerned that the chemo was going to kill me, and that I’d loose my hair. Not sure which one worried them more. 🙂

So as always, I explained to them the facts as best I could, and didn’t lie to them. To answer the question then, I think considering the situation they are doing a great job of understanding and being a great support to me. They most definitely make me very proud to be their dad. 🙂

That was your questions answered for today, hope you enjoyed the read.

Stay Awesome.

Positively, T Neil van Rooyen.