tatiana schlossberg 35 reveals Terminal cancer diagnosis

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00:00Acute myeloid leukemia has been identified in Caroline Kennedy and Edwin Schlossberg's daughter.

00:06Tatiana Schlossberg's cancer is terminal. In an essay that appeared in The New Yorker on Saturday,

00:11November 22, the 35-year-old daughter of Caroline Kennedy and Edwin Schlossberg

00:16disclosed that she had been diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia. Schlossberg claimed that after

00:21giving birth to her second child in May 2024, her doctor discovered an imbalance in her white

00:26blood cell count, which led her to discover she had the illness. My doctor discovered that my

00:30blood count appeared abnormal a few hours later. 4-11,000 white blood cells per microliter are

00:37considered normal. I had 131,000 cells per microliter, she wrote. She added that she was

00:43ultimately diagnosed with a rare mutation called inversion 3. It could just be something related

00:49to pregnancy and delivery, the doctor said, or it could be leukemia, she continued. When discussing

00:55her possibilities for treatment, Schlossberg wrote, I could not be cured by a standard course.

01:01She went on, I did not, could not believe that they were talking about me, adding that she was

01:06first informed that she would require months of chemotherapy and a bone marrow transplant.

01:10Nine months pregnant, I had swum a mile in the water the day before. I wasn't ill. I didn't feel ill.

01:18In actuality, I was among the healthiest people I had ever met. I had a son whom I loved more than

01:23anything and a newborn I needed to take care of, Schlossberg continued. She has a three-year-old

01:28boy and a one-year-old daughter with her husband, George Moran, whom she married in 2017.

01:34After giving birth to her baby, Schlossberg eventually spent five weeks in Columbia Presbyterian

01:39Hospital. After that, she received chemotherapy at home and was moved to Memorial Sloan Kettering

01:45for a bone marrow transplant. Schlossberg enrolled in a CART cell therapy clinical trial in January.

01:52CART cell therapy is an immunotherapy used to treat specific blood malignancies. Eventually,

01:59the doctor informed her that she only had a year to live. In her essay, Schlossberg commended her

02:04spouse for his support during the hardship. George did everything he could to help me. He slept on the

02:10hospital floor and talked to all the doctors and insurance people that I didn't want to talk to,

02:14she remarked. Schlossberg went on, For the past year and a half, my parents, as well as my brother

02:20and sister, have been raising my children and sitting in my various hospital rooms almost every

02:24day. They have steadfastly held my hand during my suffering, attempting to hide their anguish and

02:30sorrow to shield me from it. Even though I experience their suffering on a daily basis,

02:35this has been a wonderful gift. For my whole life, I have tried to be good, to be a good student and a

02:41good sister and a good daughter, and to protect my mother and never make her upset or angry,

02:45she said. Rose Schlossberg, a sister, and Jack Schlossberg, a brother, are Schlossberg siblings.

02:52Now I have added a new tragedy to her life, to our family's life, and there's nothing I can do to

02:57stop it, said the mother of two. Schlossberg remarked, Mostly, I try to live and be with them

03:02now, regarding her own family. I let the memories come and go because it's harder than it seems to be in

03:08the moment.