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It's agonising.

Who do you tell? Who do you need to tell? Can you get away with not telling? How do people do that?

I told my parents yesterday. Tore their world apart. My dad went into doctor mode – I knew he would, and had prepared an email in advance to send him all the medical reports and letters so far. But as with parents the world over, nothing else matters. I'm an only child, I'm their only child, and suddenly their life looks insubstantial over there and they want to be here.

It was one of the hardest things I've ever done.