Talking with Your Loved Ones About Multiple Myeloma

Maybe you are a parent with young children or teens, or a spouse or partner who must share your myeloma diagnosis with your loved one. Talking about cancer is never easy, but it is always necessary. The following links provide options on how to share your diagnosis with your loved ones, as well as how you can steer through living with a disease together. 

• Cancer Support Community: What Do I Tell the Kids? (https://www.cancersupportcommunity.org/sites/default/files/fsac/what_do_I_tell_the_kids.pdf)
• MM Families Resource and Resiliency Toolkit (https://imf-d8-prod.s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com/2022-01/MM-Families-Resource-Resliency-ToolKit-1-2022.pdf), resources on resilience in multiple myeloma care
• Talking with Children and Grandchildren About Cancer (https://imf-d8-prod.s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com/2023-03/talking-with-children-and-grandchildren.pdf)
• Caregivers and Family (https://www.cancer.org/treatment/caregivers.html), a resource from the American Cancer Society
• Atlas of Care: Research, Data, and Solutions for Family Caregiving (https://atlasofcaregiving.com/)
• It's Okay (https://imf-d8-prod.s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com/2023-03/it-is-okay-by-abigail-mclaughlin.pdf)  — This book was written by Abigail McLaughlin when she was in sixth grade. She wrote this as a school assignment, shortly after her father was diagnosed with multiple myeloma.