Understanding Grandma’s Battle with Multiple Myeloma: Helping Children Understand Cancer
Understanding Grandma’s Battle with Multiple Myeloma: Helping Children Understand Cancer When someone in the family is diagnosed with multiple myeloma, the diagnosis doesn't belong only to the patient. In one way or another, the entire family begins living with it. There are doctor's appointments, blood tests, treatments, medications, fatigue, good days, bad days, canceled plans, and conversations that suddenly stop when a child walks into the room. Children know something is happening. The difficult part is helping them understand what. That is the purpose behind Understanding Grandma's Battle with Multiple Myeloma by KT Roland—a children's book designed to take a complicated cancer and explain it through words young readers can understand. When Grandma Has Cancer Multiple myeloma isn't an easy disease to explain to an adult, much less a child. It's a cancer of plasma cells found in the bone marrow. Those abnormal cells can interfere with the body's abilit...