[livi]

I have only my professional experience and as such I see kids like this regularly. As a private relative I no more experience than the next guy, fortunately.

My only general opinion, one that is based on how all the kids I have known threw the years with malignant disease wanted me to act, is that they want to be treated and related to completely normal. No pity, no sorrow, no talk about the disease. Focus on what you would have talked about with any person.

They do not want to be the 'poor, dying kid', but any kid.