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照顾照顾者 来源自：涵翔医疗 来源自：涵翔医疗翻译自? 翻译人员也很辛苦，转载/借用请注明出处！ 迪克西和她的儿子，保罗 保罗在弹吉他，当他接受波士顿儿童医院的治疗后 caring for the caregiver Posted on?28 Jun 2010?by?Boston Childrens Hospital staff ? ? Dixie Coskie is the mother of a child who lived through both a traumatic brain injury and cancer. In this blog post, Dixie writes about the stress that comes from being the primary caregiver of a sick child and the importance of taking care of yourself. Click?here?to read more of Dixie’s writing, including excerpts from her book,?Unthinkable! A Caregiver’s Companion. getting that phone call—the one that tells you something bad has happened to your family. Be it a diagnosis of a life-threatening disease or an involvement in a horrific accident, you never expect it to happen to someone you love. When it does, most of us are totally unprepared for the constant caregiving that follows and how it can impact your life emotionally, spiritually and physically. I received such a call in 2001 when my 13-year-old son was involved in a bike accident without a helmet. Among many other severe injuries, he incurred traumatic brain injury. Not expected to live, Paul was given last rites. Doctors warned me that if he did survive, his quality of life would be questionable. Finally, Paul woke from a two-month coma. He couldn’t walk, talk or perform the simplest of tasks. Suddenly, in addition to taking care of the needs of my other seven children, with ages ranging from 6 to 16, I needed to learn medical techniques used in caring for a severely handicapped child. My husband and I worked as a nonstop team, one of us caring for the rest of the household while the other took care of Paul at a rehab hospital an hour from our home. In the shuffle, there was no time for us to take care of our own needs. The caregiving was isolating, demanding and never-ending. A year after the crash, my son healed enough to be able to return to school in a wheelchair. These were my first moments of reprieve.