The actor's son died in January 2018 from cancer loves to cherish the memory of his son Henry, who died at age 21⁄2 from cancer. The actor, 47, appeared on a Monday, July 22 episode of and spoke about his son Henry, who died in January 2018 from cancer. "In 2018, my son Henry, he died of a brain tumor that he was diagnosed with right around his first birthday.
And yeah, he died in the beginning of 2018 and he was just the sweetest little most wonderful guy," Delaney begins. "We say that about all of our kids but Henry was better than other children. And he was so funny and his brain tumor was in the back of his head near his brain stem, so it brought him a lot of physical disabilities ‘cause that stuff is controlled back there.
" "But his frontal lobe was fine so he was very funny and smart and charming and gorgeous and flirty and silly and brilliant," the proud dad continues. "He learned sign language cause he couldn’t talk cause he had a tracheostomy." Related: Continuing to say that he wrote a book about his son, Delaney shares that he wanted to write about grief since it can be different for everyone.
"I always thought there’s a lot of stuff written about grief where people are kind of like, ‘And then one day the sun came out again.’ And I was like, ‘Yeah, enough of that crap,' " Delaney says. "It’s a nightmare and I figured the best thing I could do was sort of elucidate how awful it is.
And let the reader glean hope by seeing that my family is okay now but I didn’t want to prescribe it like, ‘It’ll all be fine.’ Cause a lot of things aren’t fine." Co-host Hoda Kotb tells Delaney she's glad he wants to talk about his son since she knows the topic can be sensitive.
"No, I love to talk about him. He’s my son, I’m his dad. His brothers miss him, his mom misses him, and he’s part of our family, so I don’t know how to not talk about him," Delaney responds.
In 2018, Delaney shared that after being diagnosed with brain cancer in 2016. “Henry had been diagnosed with a brain tumor in 2016, shortly after his first birthday, following persistent vomiting and weight loss. He had surgery to remove the tumor and further treatment through the early part of 2017.
Then the cancer returned last autumn and he died in January,” Delaney wrote in a in February 2018. “Henry was a joy. He was smart, funny, and mischievous and we had so many wonderful adventures together, particularly after he’d moved home following 15 months living in hospitals,” continued Delaney, saying that even though Henry’s “tumor and surgery left him with significant physical disabilities” his son had “quickly learned sign language and developed his own method of getting from A to B shuffling on his beautiful little bum.
” “His drive to live and to love and to connect was profound,” added Delaney. Seven months after Henry's death, Delaney and his wife Leah , which the actor revealed in an interview with . “We likely would’ve had a fourth anyway,” Delaney told the U.
K. publication of his and his wife’s decision to expand their family while Henry was sick. “But I mean, there’s mixed feelings.
It’s sort of like [Henry and the new baby] touch each other a little bit, but they almost exist in separate lanes.” “Having another child in no way, shape or form eases the grief of Henry dying. But also having Henry dying ,” he continued.
“I want to gobble him up and he deserves our full attention and love, and he grew in the same womb as Henry.” For more People news, make sure to Read the original article on ..
