Talking about Diagnosis and Shifts in Baseline

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Communicating with the siblings: What can we do to make this as less traumatic as possible, to minimize damage.

Parents of three children, one of which was diagnosed with a very rare genetic condition at birth talk about telling their other two kids. They were honest with them about his diagnosis and what it meant for his life, finding that they were able to come together as a family and love Viggo with their whole hearts even if it meant they would break.