Unthinkable: A Caregivers Companion
The Call
Tips: How to be prepared before an accident
Foreign Territory
Tips: What to do and say in the emergency room
Disaster All Around
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
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
Awakening
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
Questions to ask the potential rehabilitation hospital
Returning to work
Different ways to grieve
Another World
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
What to do and say while in the rehabilitation hospital
How you may be feeling emotionally
Humbled
Tips: Warning signs of depression
Ways to keep hope alive
How to take care of yourself and your other children
Ways to keep hope alive
How to take care of yourself and your other children
The Transformation
Tips: Understanding your child’s limitations
Know what you can and cannot do
How to keep your marriage intact
Know what you can and cannot do
How to keep your marriage intact
Reality
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
How to prepare other children for the homecoming
How to keep advocating, especially around the holidays
Challenges
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
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
Mixed Emotions
Tips: How to take care of yourself
How to accept your situation
How others can help
How to accept your situation
How others can help
Miracles Do Happen
Tips: How to stay positive
How to keep hope alive
Ways to give thanks
How to keep hope alive
Ways to give thanks
One Year Later – 2003
Tips: How life ultimately moves forward
How to give back to others
Things to think about as your child gets older
How to give back to others
Things to think about as your child gets older
A Childs World
Tips: How traumatic brain injury affects siblings
How different children cope
Life’s lessons learned through our experience
How different children cope
Life’s lessons learned through our experience
Unthinkable
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
The only thing you have power over is how you react
Fairytale endings do not always play out in real life
Author’s Note
Lovely Lady Dressed in Blue
Background on Traumatic Brain Injury