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How to Save Money, 9 Tips for Medical Families

16th Jul 202024th Feb 2022Leave a comment

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

18th Jun 202024th Feb 2022Leave a comment

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

11th Jun 202024th Feb 2022Leave a comment

Supporting grief for children, especially your own children is hard-work. Children see death differently, depending on their age.

A teddy bear and plaster handprints & footprints on a hospital room tray, dad in the background hospital bed, feeling child loss for the first time

Feeling Child Loss

7th May 202024th Feb 2022Leave a comment

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

2nd Apr 202024th Feb 2022Leave a comment

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

17th Mar 202024th Feb 2022

Very Special Kids cares for children with life-threatening conditions by providing a children’s hospice and professional family support services.

Not PTSD, Post-traumatic growth: Man -possibly asian decent standing at the top of dark stairs looking back down with light behind him.

Not PTSD – Post-Traumatic Growth

23rd Dec 201924th Feb 2022

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

27th Nov 201924th Feb 2022Leave a comment

Who knew as a kid that a New Year would be a cause of further pain & grief? The New Year is coming, and our lost loved one, won't be in it While grieving as I learned to take a day at a time, I was surprised to realise that the idea of New Years … Continue reading Grief while facing a New Year

Man laying in green grass with while daisies and some yellow dandelion - he is laying arms and legs apart head back, looking relieved - perhaps experiencing relief while greiving

Relief while grieving a disabled child

3rd Nov 201924th Feb 2022Leave a comment

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 … Continue reading Relief while grieving a disabled child

Yellow and white handfolded lantern hung by a sliver pipe cleaners, snowy/spider web type decorations hang behind with tiny lights sparkling, the kind that you might like to share with a child having christmas in hospital.

Christmas in hospital with other children

3rd Nov 201924th Feb 2022

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.

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