Motherhood through Childhood Cancer & Chronic disease w/Brittany Magnus

Mama Knows

Cloud10

Parenting, Kids & Family

5.0 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Grab your tissues. We hear from Brittany, one of my amazing and strong followers, about her son, Cole, who has high risk acute lymphoblastic leukemia and her son, Hudson, who has Chron's Disease.Thank you so much to Brittany for sharing her and her family's story. In the episode, we cover: Brittany, you’re here today to share with us about life as a family with two small kids, one diagnosed with cancer and one with chrons disease back to back. But tell us about how life was for you just before these awful news? Tell us about what led up to these diagnoses, what made you do the testing? You have to often shift between mom and caregiver, tell us about how this works between you and your support system and how has it impacted your mental health? What has helped you get through all of this? How can we best support a friend with a child with cancer? Brittany is a suburban Chicago mom of 2 boys and a childhood cancer advocate.IG: @brittmagnus_Brittmagnus.com ______________________________Did you love this episode? BUY ME A COFFEE for support!Find me on Instagram@balkanina@mamaknowspodcastFind me on TikTokBalkaninaSubscribe to my NewsletterPrivate Facebook Motherhood-Podcast CommunityMama Knows FBDisclaimer: This podcast does not provide any medical advice, it is for informational purposes only! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Sunshine, I'm running in the rain. I hate this weather.
0:07.0	Not me.
0:11.0	Ugh, still 6K.
0:15.0	I know I'm exhausted.
0:18.0	You're right.
0:20.0	I love running too.
0:21.0	If you don't hate running a little, you don't love running too. If you don't hate running a little you don't love running enough.
0:25.0	Run with Nike.
0:27.0	Visit Nike.com slash running to learn more. Hey guys you're listening to m Knows Podcast with your host
0:43.4	Nina Kavagiola aka Balconina.
0:49.5	Join in weekly as she walks alongside you to navigate topics around motherhood, mental health, self-love, and
0:55.6	relationships. The good, bad, and funny.
1:07.6	It's a heavy one today guys. We're talking about childhood cancer. I got a little bit emotional during this episode, but our guest Brittany, who's a mama of two boys, did an amazing job sharing her story.
1:16.6	She has a five-year-old and a seven-year-old, and at the time of their diagnoses, how do you say that?
1:26.4	They were two and a half and around five years old.
1:29.7	So her son Cole at two and a half was diagnosed with leukemia and her son Cole at 2.5 was diagnosed with leukemia and her son Hudson shortly after at
1:37.3	age 5 was diagnosed with Crohn's disease.
1:40.0	So Brittany is a medical mama and she shares all the things about how we got to this diagnosis,
1:46.7	why to trust your mom gut, what support system is needed for medical mamas and so much more. Let's jump into this episode.
1:58.0	I Brittany, thank you so much for being here. I'm a little bit scared about this conversation because I feel like it's
2:04.8	going to make me cry at that time of the month and I'm already like an emotional human as it is, but
2:10.5	we're going to talk about some hard things as moms today.
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