I've just had an appointment at hematology under the 2-week rule yesterday, where I was given a provisional but very much not definitive diagnosis of Acute Myeloid Leukaemia. I'm back at home with my husband and children, self-isolating, and obviously haven't had normal contact with the kids for a good few days, although we've been speaking and so on, of course.
DC are 7, 6 and 4 and suddenly disappearing into self-isolation has been a bit difficult to explain! DD6 and DS4 have been fairly accepting of it, although DD has been very tearful. DD7, on the other hand, has the most enquiring mind ever and isn't buying the holding line at all (which is just that I've not been feeling very well and until the doctor knows how to make me better, I have to stay away from the family so that we don't share each other's germs).
I'm really not wanting to talk to the children until I actually know what we're telling them.... and I'm not sure how much to tell them even then. But I feel like I need to talk a little more with eldest DD because she's been at it with the questions all morning and I can tell she knows there's more to it.
What would you advise? Should I talk to them and if so, how much? All together, or separately (and differently?) The whole corona - self isolation business makes it so much more complicated...
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