JFK’s granddaughter Tatiana Schlossberg reveals terminal cancer diagnosis

MORNING. TED, THIS IS A TERMINAL DIAGNOSIS. WELL, GOOD MORNING, RONDELL AND JEN. THIS KENNEDY NEWS IS THE LATEST CHAPTER IN THIS POLITICAL FAMILY SAGA. JOURNALIST AND MOTHER OF TWO, TATIANA SCHLOSSBERG REVEALING SHE’S BEEN FIGHTING A RARE AND AGGRESSIVE BLOOD CANCER. PUBLISHING THE DETAILS IN AN ESSAY IN THE NEW YORKER, SHE WRITES ABOUT THE SHOCK OF HER DIAGNOSIS 18 MONTHS AGO, IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING THE BIRTH OF HER SECOND CHILD, WRITING QUOTE I HAD SWUM A MILE IN THE POOL THE DAY BEFORE, NINE MONTHS PREGNANT. I WASN’T SICK, I DIDN’T FEEL SICK, THE 35 YEAR OLD, CHRONICLING THE SERIES OF INTENSE AND RAPID TREATMENTS, INCLUDING HER SISTER DONATING STEM CELLS TO BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTS AND CHEMOTHERAPY. STILL, SHE SAYS, DOCTORS TOLD HER SHE HAS LESS THAN A YEAR TO LIVE WRITING. I FEEL SO CHEATED AND SO SAD THAT I DON’T GET TO KEEP LIVING THE WONDERFUL LIFE I HAD. AND THROUGHOUT HER GRIEF, ALLUDING TO HER FAMILY’S HISTORY OF TRAGEDY, THE ESSAY COMING ON THE 62ND ANNIVERSARY OF THE ASSASSINATION OF SCHLOSSBERG’S GRANDFATHER, PRESIDENT JOHN F KENNEDY SCHLOSSBERG, SAYING, NOW I’VE ADDED A NEW TRAGEDY TO OUR FAMILY’S LIFE, AND THERE’S NOTHING I CAN DO TO STOP IT. SHE SAYS SHE’S TRYING TO LIVE IN THE NOW, FOCUSING ON HER HUSBAND AND HER TWO YOUNG CHILDREN, EXPRESSING FEAR AS SHE GRAPPLES WITH DEATH. MY FIRST THOUGHT WAS THAT MY KIDS, WHOSE FACES LIVED PERMANENTLY ON THE INSIDE OF MY EYELIDS, WOULDN’T REMEMBER ME. AGAIN. THE ANNOUNCEMENT FROM JFK’S GRANDDAUGHTER COMES ON THE 62ND ANNIVERSARY OF