JFK granddaughter Tatiana Schlossberg reveals terminal cancer diagnosis

Former President John F. Kennedy’s granddaughter, Tatiana Schlossberg, introduced Saturday – precisely 62 years after he was assassinated – that she has terminal most cancers.

The 35-year-old mentioned that shortly after her daughter’s beginning in Might 2024, she was identified with acute myeloid leukemia, with a uncommon mutation referred to as Inversion 3, and docs just lately instructed her she in all probability has a couple of 12 months to dwell.

“My first thought was that my kids, whose faces are completely hooked up to the within of my eyelids, wouldn’t keep in mind me,” she wrote in an essay for The New Yorker. “My son could have some recollections, however he is prone to confuse them with footage he sees or tales he hears.”

She mentioned she “might by no means actually take care of my daughter – I could not change her diaper, bathe her or feed her, all due to the chance of an infection after my transplants.” I used to be gone for nearly half of her first 12 months of life. I do not know who she really thinks I’m, or if she’ll really feel or do not forget that I am her mom once I’m gone.”

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President John F. Kennedy’s granddaughter, Tatiana Schlossberg, introduced Saturday – precisely 62 years after he was assassinated – that she has terminal most cancers. (Craig Barritt/Getty Pictures for New York Journal)

She mentioned the analysis was surprising as a result of she felt utterly wholesome.

“I could not consider they had been speaking about me,” she wrote of the primary dialog about leukemia. “I had swam a mile within the pool the day earlier than, 9 months pregnant. I wasn’t sick. I did not really feel sick. I used to be really one of many healthiest individuals I knew.”

She mentioned the most cancers primarily happens in older sufferers and that docs typically requested her if she had spent numerous time at Floor Zero in New York Metropolis, which she had not.

Schlossberg, the daughter of Caroline Kennedy, JFK’s eldest surviving daughter, described in heartbreaking element her months of assorted remedies to beat the most cancers.

She underwent chemotherapy to “cut back the variety of blast cells in my bone marrow” after which acquired a bone marrow transplant with the assistance of her sister.

She mentioned that after she went into remission and went residence, she not had an immune system and needed to get all her childhood vaccines once more.

Tatiana Schlossberg along with her mom Caroline Kennedy, brother Jack Schlossberg and Prince William on the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum. (Matt Stone/Pool/AFP by way of Getty Pictures)

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Then she relapsed and her physician instructed her that leukemia along with her mutation “favored to come back again.”

Early this 12 months, she participated in a scientific trial of CAR T-cell remedy, “a type of immunotherapy that has confirmed efficient in opposition to sure sorts of blood most cancers.”

That was adopted by one other spherical of chemotherapy and a second blood transfusion from an unrelated donor.

“Over the past scientific trial, my physician instructed me he might maintain me alive for perhaps a 12 months,” she wrote.

She additionally wrote about her issues after her cousin Robert F. Kennedy Jr., whom she referred to as an “embarrassment,” was nominated as secretary of Well being and Human Providers.

“All of the sudden, the well being care system I relied on felt strained and shaky,” she wrote. “Docs and Scientists in Columbia [Presbyterian hospital]included [her husband] George did not know if they might be capable to proceed their analysis, or also have a job.”

Schlossberg was identified shortly after her daughter’s beginning final 12 months. (Nathan Congleton/NBCU Picture Financial institution/NBCUniversal by way of Getty Pictures)

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She praised the remainder of her household, who she mentioned had been at her bedside as she underwent remedies and cared for her kids.

Of her husband, urologist George Moran, she wrote: “He’s excellent, and I really feel so cheated and so unhappy that I can not proceed to dwell the fantastic life I had with this type, humorous, good-looking genius I discovered.”

Her brother Jack Schlossberg, who’s working for Congress in New York, wrote on his Instagram on Saturday: “Life is brief, let it rip.”

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Her mom’s cousin, Maria Shriver, shared her essay on Instagram, writing: “Should you can solely learn one factor at this time, please take time to learn this extraordinary piece of writing by Tatiana, my cousin Caroline’s extraordinary daughter. Tatiana is a ravishing author, journalist, spouse, mom, daughter, sister and good friend.”

Tatiana added in her essay: “All my life I’ve tried to be good, to be a great pupil and a great sister and a great daughter, and to guard my mom and by no means upset her or make her indignant. Now I’ve added a brand new tragedy to her life, to the lifetime of our household, and there may be nothing I can do to cease it.”

Tatiana Schlossberg watched their mom’s affirmation listening to in Congress with brother Jack Schlossberg in 2013 to turn into ambassador to Japan. (ImageCatcher Information Service/Corbis by way of Getty Pictures)

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Robert F. Kennedy Sr., her mom, Caroline Kennedy’s uncle, was assassinated 5 years after JFK, and together with having two siblings who died in infancy, Caroline’s solely surviving brother, JFK Jr., died in a aircraft crash in 1999.

Schlossberg’s grandmother, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, additionally died of most cancers in 1994, of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma when she was 64.

She concluded her essay by saying that she now lives to be along with her kids.

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“However being within the current is more durable than it sounds, so I let the recollections come and go,” she admitted. “There are such a lot of from my childhood, it is like I am watching myself and my kids develop up on the identical time.”

She added: ‘Typically I trick myself into considering I am going to keep in mind this eternally, I am going to keep in mind this once I’m lifeless. I clearly will not do this. However since I do not know what loss of life is like and there is not any one to inform me what comes subsequent, I am going to maintain pretending. I am going to maintain attempting to recollect.’