Candidly Talking Cancer
- SurvivorNetTV's latest film, Dave – The Power of Talking About Cancer, explores the benefits of openly discussing a cancer diagnosis with loved ones.
- David Bull, and Englishman, had a recurrence of cancer in 2013, and decided to tell his children, with his wife, at Christmastime.
- He said the decision to share his cancer then with his kids was the right move.
“My cancer came back in 2013, in December, and the hardest thing for my wife and I was: How to tell the kids? It was just before Christmas; we had a tree up in the house, and everyone was getting excited and ready for Christmas…so it just felt like an awful time to tell them all: ‘Daddy has cancer again.”
Read More The Bull family called a meeting to share the news with their kids. “It wasn’t as bad as we thought it was going to be,” he said. “It created a much better atmosphere in the house where everyone was talking about it; it was the best thing we ever did.”
Bull started treatment in 2014 and passed away earlier this year, in March 2020.
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