{"id":326337,"date":"2026-03-03T08:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T08:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/326337\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T08:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T08:22:09","slug":"my-parents-moved-into-my-one-bed-apartment-to-help-me-through-breast-cancer-treatment-and-we-actually-had-a-great-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/326337\/","title":{"rendered":"My parents moved into my one-bed apartment to help me through breast cancer treatment \u2013 and we actually had a great time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nWhen Dubliner Caroline Kay got her diagnosis, her parents said they\u2019d move in with her in London and take care of her during chemo. Her thanks, via an Instagram post, went viral&#8230;\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Caroline Kay's parents moved into her apartment with her for four months to help her as she was treated for breast cancer\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/line Full Body Shot.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Caroline Kay&#8217;s parents moved into her apartment with her for four months to help her as she was treated for breast cancer<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">When writer, composer and performer Caroline Kay posted a video earlier this month on her Instagram (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/carolinekay117\/?hl=en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@carolinekay117<\/a>) of her parent\u2019s four-month stay with her in London late last year during her cancer treatment, she hadn\u2019t expected it to go viral.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The Dubliner\u2019s intention was to thank her parents, who had stayed with her in her one-bedroom apartment, for coming to her chemo appointments, organising her medication, cooking and cleaning for her, making her laugh, even creating a bespoke real-hair wig to suit her needs exactly, all of which she captured in her Instagram reel, which has been watched 2.6 million times so far, and commented on by thousands.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When Dubliner Caroline Kay got her diagnosis, her parents said they\u2019d move in with her in London and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":326338,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60,898,29782,128197,128198],"class_list":["post-326337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-latest-news-ticker","tag-service-journalism","tag-shp","tag-signature-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}