Tatiana Schlossberg, the daughter of Caroline Kennedy, said she has been diagnosed with terminal cancer and has less than a year to live. The 35-year-old writer revealed the tragic news in a personal essay she penned for The New Yorker, which was published Saturday. Schlossberg said she has been living with acute myeloid leukemia, a cancer of the blood and bone marrow. Doctors discovered the disease in May 2024, shortly after she gave birth to her second child, when blood work showed an abnormality. “A few hours later, my doctor noticed that my blood count looked strange. A normal white-blood-cell count is around four to eleven thousand cells per microliter. Mine was a hundred and thirty-one thousand cells per microliter,” Schlossberg wrote in her essay. She has a rare mutation of the disease called Inversion 3, which cannot be cured with standard treatment. The diagnosis came as a shock to Schlossberg, who considered herself healthy. “I did not could not believe that they were talking about me,” she 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.” Schlossberg spent five weeks at Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital following her diagnosis before transferring to Memorial Sloan Kettering for a bone marrow transplant. She received chemotherapy at home and in January participated in a clinical trial for CAR-T-cell therapy, a type of immunotherapy. A doctor informed her she had a year left to live after this treatment. The writer praised her husband, George Moran, for his support during her illness. “George did everything for me that he possibly could. He talked to all the doctors and insurance people that I didn’t want to talk to; he slept on the floor of the hospital,” she wrote. Schlossberg and Moran have a 3-year-old son and a 1-year-old daughter. Her parents and siblings, Rose and Jack Schlossberg, have been helping raise her children and supporting her through treatment. “They have held my hand unflinchingly while I have suffered, trying not to show their pain and sadness in order to protect me from it,” she continued. “This has been a great gift, even though I feel their pain every day.” Reflecting on her family’s history of tragedy, Schlossberg wrote, “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.” She said she is now concentrating on the time she has remaining with her family. “Mostly, I try to live and be with them now. But being in the present is harder than it sounds, so I let the memories come and go.”.
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