{"id":22531,"date":"2025-12-29T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/cancer-parent-first-person-ottawa-9-6985230cmprss\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T09:00:00","slug":"cancer-parent-first-person-ottawa-9-6985230cmprss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/?p=22531","title":{"rendered":"FIRST PERSON | My 11-year-old son has leukemia. I&#8217;m never quite sure when to bring it up | CBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.cbc.ca\/ais\/3b838709-9f2f-47b1-bcc5-315321eac557,1764191944281\/full\/max\/0\/default.jpg?im=Crop%2Crect%3D%280%2C131%2C2016%2C1134%29%3BResize%3D%28620%29\" alt=\"A man and a boy in a selfie-style photo.\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" title=\"Chris Mallinos says the outside world already poses risks to his son Theo&apos;s compromised immune system, but he writes that often interpersonal interactions can make the world feel unsafe, too.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When Chris Mallinos\u2019s son Theo was diagnosed with leukemia, he was prepared for the physical isolation that would come with avoiding infection during Theo&#8217;s treatment. However, Mallinos wasn&#8217;t prepared for the emotional isolation of his son being a cancer parent.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<strong>Source:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/ottawa\/cancer-parent-first-person-ottawa-9.6985230?cmp=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><br \/>\nRead full article at www.cbc.ca<br \/>\n<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:14px; color:#555;\">\n<strong>Medical Disclaimer:<\/strong><br \/>\nThis content is for informational and educational purposes only.<br \/>\nIt does not replace professional medical advice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Chris Mallinos\u2019s son Theo was diagnosed with leukemia, he was prepared for the physical isolation that would come with avoiding infection during Theo&#8217;s treatment. However, Mallinos wasn&#8217;t prepared for the emotional isolation of his son being a cancer parent. Source: Read full article at www.cbc.ca Medical Disclaimer: This content is for informational and educational [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22532,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1747],"tags":[10397,11660,8436,11659,1873,11657,11658],"class_list":["post-22531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fitness-lifestyle","tag-11yearold","tag-bring","tag-cbc","tag-leukemia","tag-news","tag-person","tag-son"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}