Help through illness
When a child is seriously ill, everyday life gets harder for the whole family.
A serious illness does not only happen to the child. It happens to the parents who stop sleeping, the brother or sister who gets quieter, the job that will not wait and the week that falls apart.
We cannot make a child better. What we can do is take some of the weight off the family around them, so there is a little more room for the bit that matters.
We are not a medical service and we are not an emergency one. We are the people who turn up, do what we said we would, and stay.
What it looks like in practice
No two families need the same thing. It might be the cost of parking at the hospital week after week, a food shop in a month that has got away from you, or something for a brother or sister who has had a thin few months of attention.
We would rather you asked and we said no than you never asked.
What this can look like
Something practical
The small things that pile up when a family is spending its days at a hospital.
The whole family
Parents, carers, brothers and sisters. Nobody in the house is having an easy time of it.
For as long as it helps
Not a one-off gesture. We stay in touch and we check back.
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