Tips: How to be prepared before an accident

Tips: What to do and say in the emergency room

Tips: What to do and say in the intensive care unit (ICU)
How to advocate for your child
How to prepare your other children for a visit to the ICU
How friends can help
What friends should not do

Tips: How to prepare for the transition to the rehabilitiation hostipal
Questions to ask the potential rehabilitation hospital
Returning to work
Different ways to grieve

Tips: What you can expect to encounter in the rehabilitation hospital
What to do and say while in the rehabilitation hospital
How you may be feeling emotionally

Tips: Warning signs of depression
Ways to keep hope alive
How to take care of yourself and your other children

Tips: Understanding your child’s limitations
Know what you can and cannot do
How to keep your marriage intact

Tips: How to prepare your child for a visit home
How to prepare other children for the homecoming
How to keep advocating, especially around the holidays

Tips: What challenges may still exist
How to transition from the rehabilitation hospital to home
What to do once you’re home
Ways to transition to an outpatient facility
How to transition back to school
Emotions your child may experience
How to make an educational plan for your child

Tips: How to take care of yourself
How to accept your situation
How others can help

Tips: How to stay positive
How to keep hope alive
Ways to give thanks

Tips: How life ultimately moves forward
How to give back to others
Things to think about as your child gets older

Tips: How traumatic brain injury affects siblings
How different children cope
Life’s lessons learned through our experience

Tips: Everyone, at some point, will have to face suffering
The only thing you have power over is how you react
Fairytale endings do not always play out in real life