To think that Neon's Mum, Sally Roberts, definitely displayed Narcissistic tendencies?

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This is for anyone who watched the documentary last night. Maybe it was edited to make her look bad but I felt really angry and sad about her behaviour and attitude.

She seemed more concerned with pursuing a court case that she knew she was never going to win instead of being with her sick son. An example of this is that she didn't see him the night before his brain surgery (even though she could have done) Surely it doesn't really matter what you believe, once the decision was made, she should have been there for him.

She also seemed to be enjoying the media attention a bit too much IMO and spoke to Neon in quite an odd way, when she wanted him to go into a bariatric chamber for some 'alternative' treatment, she asked him to 'do it for her'.

She believes that radiotherapy will affect his DNA and change him - well isn't that better than him dying ffs? The poor bloody kid.

If I were Neon dad and Aunty I would have told Sally to fuck off as soon as she started to open her mouth, they were incredibly well controlled and restrained

KurriKurri, a friend of mine posted something on Facebook about how eating broccoli or similar could cure cancer. No scientific basis whatsoever but this is someone who thinks homeopathy works. Ho hum.

There's a regular nutter in comments sections on any article about leukaemia who says that blood washes and VitC in high dose is the cure, not chemo.

We could have 'washed' DD1's blood (the kidneys do that) from now till the world ends, it would not have stopped her bone marrow from producing cancerous white blood cells.

Its such a fucking sad story

but yes, I think he is better off with his dad

I think my opinion on her is best left in my brain

poor little neon

oh dear at the 'cold eyes' comment. That just makes you sound idiotic.

I've just watched this. So glad that Neon's dad and aunt are so lovely and they seemed to have some nice friends and other people around too.

I agree with most of what's been said here, I think this woman has definitely been preyed on by whackjobs (the red haired woman wittering on about "toxins" in the womb having caused Neon's appendicitis, erm... and that dude with the "microwave detector", absolutely ridiculous!). I kind of feel like she's so desperate that she's hanging on to something which tragically happens to be utterly misguided, but she was not portrayed that way. I accept that the show was edited in a certain way and so on but the way she seemed to speak to and about Neon and the bit about her not coming to see him before his op makes it very difficult to see her in that light.

In any case, if she is as toxic as she frankly seems then I think Neon and Electra have a very good chance of escaping their childhood relatively unscathed due to the fabulous dad and aunt. I really hope Neon makes a full recovery.

Sweetest Broccoli cures cancer!

EeTraceyluv Sorry that you had those horrible childhood experiences. Do you have contact with your mother now?

It is a great shock, to receive such a diagnosis, but I haven't encountered anyone who didn't, well, sort of come to reality after the first few weeks.

personally I don't think that she is a toxic parent given that her husband seemed to be absolutely fine with her having primary custody before the whole cancer treatment thing, didn't seem to think so during the previous six years of their children's lives and even suggested that it might be a better situation if their daughter were to live with her during the treatment.

I do think they both maybe need to think about the effect filming may have had on both their children.

EeTraceyluv

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I do - but I can't discuss it with her - all I get is wails of 'I did what I thought was best'. She didn't, but hey, I'm ok I just know that I would never do to my kids what she did to me . Thank you

Yes, the way she phrased the infertility issue, "no grandchildren is a big factor" was very odd.

I found the Dad quite odd, he seemed delighted at the attention. He fed his son shite ndand wasn't interested in his daughter. It seemed to me he wanted the son for the attention.

I thought it best she stay away the night before treatment if she disagreed with it, and risk upsetting her son.

I found the Mum quite odd too. I was shocked she pissed off and didn't spend time with her son if he wasn't going to the oxygen tube. She was as bad as the Drs putting the child through things he hated. The Mum seemed as delighted as the Dad with the attention. At least the Mum brushed teeth, cared about diet, wanted the daughter etc.

Feed his kid shite? When children undergo chemo, they often crave all manner of food, and you give it to them, no matter what, day or night. I took taxis from hospital to 24-hour supermarkets to get my child Magnum bars at 2AM. Anything, because they lose so much weight with the treatment and their appetite, too. You cheer when they eat and indulge any craving they have as much as possible, with full consent of the doctors mostly as they battle to keep the weight on the child.

'I thought it best she stay away the night before treatment if she disagreed with it, and risk upsetting her son.'

Rather than be a fucking adult and parent and swallow your feelings, put your child's feelings before yours, and be there for your scared child who needs brain surgery?

I'll never understand any parent who can do that to a child, and I say that as someone who watched her daughter go through absolute horror of cancer treatment and then die after 9 days in ICU.

The 'no grandchildren' thing is even more odd given that she would potentially have the chance to have grandchildren via Electra. Not of course that anyone 'owes' grandchildren to their parents or that should be put ahead of a child's wellbeing. But it's as if the daughter didn't exist, even though she was the child actually living with the mother.

There is no way I would not have gone to my child the night before surgery. It was going to happen by then regardless. The least she could have done would be to be there to comfort and cheer him.

The other thing about the phone message, all we see is someone claim to leave a phone message, no idea if it was on the Mums phone, how much notice she had etc.

The true tragedy is that C4 couldn't use the opportunity to highlight the archaic treatment in this area. Our children have to endure cancer treatment that is 20 years old, because of a lack of research. Despite cancer charities claiming they're 'coming to get you', investment in the many types of childhood cancer is minimal compared to adult cancers, yet brain tumours are in the increase and kill and disable many children per year. Every ten minutes someone is told their child has cancer in this country. We have a world leading nhs system. We have an economy that needs a boost. Why the government can't seem to attract businesses to invest in research in this area I do not know. I have asked the government and they couldn't answer me.
Sadly channel 4 choose to focus on a mothers angle rather than what should be done for neon and others like him.

I was dead behind the eyes for a spell around the time my marriage broke down. I can't imagine how I would look and behave if it had coincided with a child having a brain tumour.

Fabergegg your onthe minority, he is also neons parent and can feed his very ill little boy a fecking pizza if he wants, geese e is getting little or no treats from mum, only silly juices ad quack treatments. Give the boy some slack sh is only a child, not a ab rat!