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 docs stated she may stay for about one other yr and criticizing insurance policies pushed by her cousin, Health and Human Companies Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Tatiana Schlossberg, the daughter of Kennedy’s daughter, Caroline Kennedy, and Edwin Schlossberg, stated she was identified in Could 2024 at 34. After the beginning of her second youngster, her physician seen her white blood cell depend was excessive. It turned out to be acute myeloid leukemia with a uncommon mutation, largely seen in older individuals.
Her essay was revealed on the 62nd anniversary of her grandfather’s assassination.
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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 following from an unrelated donor, and took part in scientific trials. In the course of the newest trial, she wrote, her physician instructed her “he could keep me alive for a year, maybe.”
Schlossberg additionally stated insurance policies backed by RFK may damage most cancers sufferers like her. Caroline Kennedy urged senators to reject his affirmation.
“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,” the essay reads.
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 wonderful life” she had along with her husband, George Moran. Whereas her dad and mom and siblings attempt to disguise their ache from her, she stated she feels it on daily basis.
“For my whole life, I have tried to be good, to be a good student and a good sister and a good daughter, and to protect my mother and never make her upset or angry,” she stated. “Now I have added a new tragedy to her life, to our family’s life, and there’s nothing I can do to stop it.”
