A year after her mother was found to have cancer, Selena Levy received her own cancer diagnosis. She was 42 with children then aged nine and 12 and she was concerned about how to break the news to them.
Recommended to Chai Cancer Care by her mother, she received “amazing advice on how to tell our children”. Along with fellow North London Chai client Rochelle Goldstein, Ms Levy shared her story of the charity’s support in the appeal video at Monday’s Chai dinner at the Roundhouse in Camden, where more than £1.2 million was raised from the 750 guests.
Chai’s advice was that “you have to be honest, but obviously you have to be very positive because you don’t want to scare them [the children]”, Ms Levy recalled.
She also benefited from counselling from a therapist, because “there’s some things you don’t want to burden your nearest and dearest with — and that’s what Chai’s there for.
