Allo papa bobo

The main point of this paper is simply to try to share what feelings and suffering the fathers of cancerous children hospitalized in the private hospital “Clinique de l'Espérance”, CHC-Liège, Belgium, lived, (and this) over a period longer than 2 decades. Based on what each of them could tell us in an individual interview, and always staying as close as we could to their own words, we are now attempting, as a psychologist/paediatrician duo, to analyze and understand the particular pain that these men accumulated over the never-ending years of their child's disease. Some practical ways to improve the every day life of these families have appeared to us, so that we can adapt, as well as possible, the care we give them in certain key moments, such as the announcement of the diagnosis, the relapse, or the death.