Navigating Childhood Cancer Podcast
Welcome to the Navigating Childhood Cancer Podcast.
In this podcast, we’ll explore all aspects of living through a child’s cancer diagnosis. We’ll speak with parents, experts, caregivers, and maybe even the children themselves, to understand the issues, the risks, the struggles and triumphs. We’ll talk about how to cope, how to support your child, how to ask for (and accept) help from your family and friends, and how to handle all of the day-to-day challenges that you may face while on your child’s journey.
This is the information, and the community, I wish I had when my child was diagnosed with leukemia. My goal is to educate, to support and to inspire anyone who is living through a paediatric cancer diagnosis.
Navigating Childhood Cancer Podcast
Episode 24 - My Conversation with Ambika
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In this episode, I share my conversation with Ambika. Ambika is the mother of Arya, who was 5 in 2024 when he was diagnosed with T-cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. Ambika and her husband Abhinav reached out to me because they hoped to share their family’s story and wanted the opportunity to talk about all the ways their child’s cancer impacted their family.
Ambika discusses the unique way her family rallied to support her and her husband while they shared the caregiving responsibilities for their two young children. She also shares some of the challenges they faced along the way, such as the isolation that comes with parental identity loss, how to relate to friends and colleagues when your world is upside-down, and how to handle nutritional challenges when your child simply cannot tolerate most of the foods he used to love. In Ambika's words, "We hope our story can offer comfort and connection to other families and caregivers who may be walking a similar path."
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I know you'll enjoy this episode.