John F. Kennedy’s granddaughter disclosed Saturday that she has terminal most cancers, writing in an essay in “The New Yorker” that one in every of her medical doctors mentioned she would possibly dwell for about one other yr.
Tatiana Schlossberg, the daughter of Kennedy’s daughter, Caroline Kennedy, and Edwin Schlossberg, wrote that she was identified in Could 2024 at 34. After the delivery of her second little one, her physician seen her white blood cell rely was excessive. It turned out to be acute myeloid leukemia with a uncommon mutation, principally seen in older individuals, she wrote.
Her essay was revealed on the 62nd anniversary of her grandfather’s assassination.
Schlossberg, an environmental journalist, wrote she has undergone rounds of chemotherapy and two stem cell transplants, the primary utilizing cells from her sister and the subsequent from an unrelated donor, and took part in medical trials. Throughout the newest trial, she wrote that her physician instructed her “he might hold me alive for a yr, perhaps.”
Schlossberg mentioned the insurance policies pushed by her cousin Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the U.S. Well being and Human Companies secretary, might damage most cancers sufferers like her. Caroline Kennedy urged senators to reject RFK Jr.’s affirmation.
“As I spent an increasing number of of my life beneath the care of medical doctors, nurses, and researchers striving to enhance the lives of others, I watched as Bobby minimize practically a half billion {dollars} for analysis into mRNA vaccines, know-how that may very well be used towards sure cancers,” she wrote within the essay.
Schlossberg wrote about her fears that her daughter and son received’t bear in mind her. She feels cheated and unhappy that she received’t get to maintain dwelling “the fantastic life” she had along with her husband, George Moran. Whereas her dad and mom and siblings attempt to disguise their ache from her, she mentioned she feels it day by day.
“For my entire life, I’ve tried to be good, to be a superb pupil and a superb sister and a superb daughter, and to guard my mom and by no means make her upset or indignant,” she wrote. “Now I’ve added a brand new tragedy to her life, to our household’s life, and there’s nothing I can do to cease it.”
