4.8 • 904 Ratings
🗓️ 30 October 2024
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Chances are someone you know will have a sick child hospitalized at some point. In this episode, Melissa explains how you can best support that parent and caregiver. Melissa herself has had two of her kiddos hospitalized so her suggestions come from lived experiences.
First, Melissa discusses the practical physical items you can bring to a caregiver in the hospital: toiletries, quality food, and a kettle or wand for warm drinks. She also describes some digital gifts that you can send. Then she describes what little acts of service you can do: doing the laundry, lending an ear, and taking care of the siblings of the hospitalized child.
Sometimes caregivers are so overwhelmed or shy that they don’t know what to ask for. If your friend is having trouble expressing what they need, start with the items in this episode and then go from there.
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0:59.6 | Julie is attending to some family matters and I thought today I would record a short |
1:05.6 | episode about a subject that is very near to my heart a subject that I |
1:11.2 | unfortunately have a whole lot of experience in. |
1:15.0 | But that means I've learned a lot and so I have some things that I think could be useful to share. |
1:21.0 | And that is ways to support a friend who has a |
1:27.4 | loved one in the hospital. There's lots of things that we think about doing when we have a friend who is the patient, but I want to focus today specifically on ways that you can really help out somebody who is |
1:46.7 | serving as caregiver to maybe a child or a parent or you know another family member who is spending a lot of time in |
1:57.2 | the hospital and so basically this is about ways to care for the hospital caregiver because it can be exhausting |
2:06.6 | and dispiriting sometimes and there's lots of little things and some big things |
2:12.1 | that we can do to help somebody out who is in that |
2:15.0 | situation to make sure that our friend doesn't get burned out, run down, fatigued, overwhelmed, neglect their own health because they're pouring |
2:28.0 | everything they have into taking care of someone that they care about. |
2:33.0 | And I know this is a little off our usual topics, |
2:36.6 | but I think it's relevant to all parents. |
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