Tatiana Schlossberg, the granddaughter of former President John F. Kennedy, revealed on Saturday she has been identified with terminal cancer, with a physician telling her she has lower than a yr to stay.
In an essay in The New Yorker, the 35-year-old wrote that she was identified final yr with acute myeloid leukemia with a uncommon mutation often known as Inversion 3, a genetic anomaly found in less than 2% of AML instances.
Doctors found the cancer shortly after Schlossberg gave start to her daughter in May 2024.
“I did not — could not — believe that they were talking about me,” Schlossberg wrote. “I had swum a mile in the pool the day before, nine months pregnant. I wasn’t sick. I didn’t feel sick. I was actually one of the healthiest people I knew.”
In the essay, Schlossberg paperwork the grueling therapy course of, which included a number of rounds of chemotherapy, two bone-marrow transplants and participation in two scientific trials. Schlossberg stated she was additionally identified with a type of Epstein-Barr virus in September, which “blasted my kidneys,” and needed to study to stroll once more.
“During the latest clinical trial, my doctor told me that he could keep me alive for a year, maybe,” she wrote.
Schlossberg, an environmental journalist, is the second daughter of former US Ambassador Caroline Kennedy and designer Edwin Schlossberg. Tatiana Schlossberg and her husband, George Moran, have a 3-year-old son and 1-year-old daughter.
Schlossberg stated her siblings — Rose, a filmmaker, and Jack, who earlier this month introduced a run for Congress — have been serving to elevate her youngsters and “have held my hand unflinchingly while I have suffered, trying not to show their pain and sadness in order to protect me from it.”
Schlossberg described going by means of therapy as her cousin, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., was confirmed as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, after “running for President as an Independent, but mostly as an embarrassment to me and the rest of my immediate family.”
She stated the medical doctors at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center, the place she was handled, didn’t know whether or not they could be affected after the Trump administration stripped Columbia University of federal funding. “Suddenly, the health-care system on which I relied felt strained, shaky,” Schlossberg wrote. The college later agreed a cope with the Trump administration to revive the funding.
Schlossberg stated she regrets including to her household’s historical past of tragedy, which incorporates John F. Kennedy’s assassination in 1963 and the assassination of her great-uncle, former Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, in 1968.
“For my whole life, I have tried to be good, to be a good student and a good sister and a good daughter, and to protect my mother and never make her upset or angry,” she writes. “Now I have added a new tragedy to her life, to our family’s life, and there’s nothing I can do to stop it.”