This is so heartbreaking

[Bookreadingliberal53]

I feel so bad for Caroline and her family
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/a-battle-with-my-blood

[a kennedy]

1. From Mina Kimes on BLUESKY.......

Just an absolutely gutting essay by Tatiana Schlossberg, a writer, mother of two young children, and cousin of RFK Jr who is dying of leukemia.

www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

As I spent more and more of my life under the care of doctors, nurses, and researchers striving to improve the lives of others, I watched as Bobby cut nearly a half billion dollars for research into mRNA vaccines, technology that could be used against certain cancers; slashed billions in funding from the National Institutes of Health, the world's largest sponsor of medical research; and threatened to oust the panel of medical experts charged with recommending preventive cancer screenings. Hundreds of N.I.H. grants and clinical trials were cancelled, affecting thousands of patients. I worried about funding for leukemia and bone-marrow research at Memorial Sloan Kettering. I worried about the trials that were my only shot at remission.

[Tree Lady]

2. That is so sad

She is trying so hard to stay alive for her family and watching them take away doctors, researchers and other treatments that might help her must be agonizing.

[hlthe2b]

3. I wrote a really detailed reply to the prior post (now deleted !!) and lost it, but I am just gutted by this news.

For those who can't read Newyorker or whatever the link was in the now-deleted thread, here is one, albeit from People.
https://people.com/caroline-kennedys-daughter-tatiana-schlossberg-reveals-terminal-cancer-diagnosis-11855177

I am so devastated by even more tragedy to Caroline and her family. Damn!
Even more so that any NIH-funded research was probably stopped with DOGE and any that was maintained in Bethesda, undoubtedly ended with RFK Jr's anti-vaxx obsessessions and conviction that mRNA and stem cell therapy were hoaxes.

I am beyond saddened. (and angry)

[Ferrets are Cool]

4. It is not an automatic death sentence. Wifey got her bone marrow transplant over two years ago and is going strong.

Thank goodness for science, doctors and nurses. Hope she gets better.

[ms liberty]

5. She was given a year AFTER chemo, bone marrow transplant and other therapies

The article is pretty clear that her transplant has not worked. It doesn't work for everyone. One of my best friends died in 2008 from it. Her transplant didn't work, either.