Grandparents / Extended Family
Delivering the diagnosis to her mother: “I wanted to control the blast because I was the epicenter.”
Carla, mother of Nathan, Audrey, and Talia (died at 23 months from infantile Tay-Sachs) and her mother Robin remember how Carla delivered the news and Carla’s wanting to protect her parents from such sadness.
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Delivering the diagnosis to her mother: “I wanted to control the blast because I was the epicenter.”
A grandmother on her daughter: “She said, ‘don’t cry in front of me, ever.”
My mother: "The biggest support she gave me was tracking me from afar."
“I was just a grandmother.”
