Tag: palliative care
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How to Save Money, 9 Tips for Medical Families
How to save money. If you’re like me with the hospital admissions, therapies & appointments, I don’t need to save money, there just isn’t enough of it. Or so I thought
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Respite For Special Needs Child
Ultimately respite for special needs children means someone else will take over caring for your child so you can take a well deserved break from caring responsibilities. The saying ‘It takes a village to raise a child’ is even more true for a special needs child.
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Grief For Children Who Have Lost a Sibling
Supporting grief for children, especially your own children is hard-work. Children see death differently, depending on their age.
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Feeling Child Loss
Child loss is one of the most difficult things I have ever had to carry with me. Although when I reflect I also know that watching my child suffer was THE most difficult thing.
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Understanding the Anticipatory Grief Process
Anticipatory grief: “A feeling of grief occurring before an impending loss.” The grief process I wanted to describe started just after Matthew was born.
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Very Special Kids for Palliative Care
Very Special Kids cares for children with life-threatening conditions by providing a children’s hospice and professional family support services.
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Not PTSD – Post-Traumatic Growth
You’ve heard of PTSD – what about Post Traumatic Growth? It changed my life with a child with a life limiting condition & made me functional when he passed.
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Grief while facing a New Year
Who knew as a kid that a New Year would be a cause of further pain & grief? While grieving as I learned to take a day at a time, I was surprised to realise that the idea of New Years & Christmas did intensify the grief. I had heard of people who hated Christmas.…
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Relief while grieving a disabled child
Feeling relief while grieving a disabled child seems like a cold and heartless thing. But when you have witnessed your child in almost constant pain for long enough, this may happen to you. If it hasn’t happened to you, keep in mind that everyday is new, and that emotions and feeling are all over the…
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Christmas in hospital with other children
This Christmas wouldn’t be in hospital. I suddenly knew why some people hate Christmas. I could be depressed, or I could focus on the good.
The Savage Self-care Coach 