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Coping and Self-Care When Your Child Is in the Hospital
By Lisa Danielpour — 2017
When your child is sick in the hospital, it can feel like you’ve entered an alternative universe. That heartache hit me like a tidal wave while caring for my desperately ill son in two children’s hospitals for eight months straight in 2015.
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