Initial reactions
Interaction of parents
Shock, and disorganization and confusion
As noted above, does not expect parents never or be prepared for the fact that their child is infected with dangerous and life-threatening cancer, and according to their knowledge or previous experience about cancer may consider the diagnosis as a death sentence on the child, and realize that a disaster of grave had befallen them and feel that family are all in for a tough days and that their child will suffer the most suffering, and in moments of adversity First, remember most of the fathers and mothers and understand very little of the explanations physician primary disease of the Child, and a state of numbness and almost dream they are experiencing at every person in the a similar situation, where the human brain automatically put self-protection of numbness and confusion to prevent the weight of emotional compressor when you hear the diagnosis, which allows analysis of the information and what one hears phrases are small and not scary, and gradually, and knows all the oncologists of this phenomenon, and understand the responses of this reaction, and repeating their commentaries normally and repeat the recommendations in later times, and here are advised parents write down instructions or to request assistance from another person, to identify and prosecute all information, complex and completely new to them, and the fact that the state of numbness are useful in the alleviation of a shock news and intensity of feelings generated by the painful knowledge of the diagnosis and give the parents time to deal progressively with the feelings and emotions.
