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

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

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

Humbled

• Tips: Warning signs of depression
  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

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

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

Mixed Emotions

• Tips: How to take care of yourself
  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

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

A Child's World

• Tips: How traumatic brain injury affects siblings
  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

Author's Note

Lovely Lady Dressed in Blue

Background on Traumatic Brain Injury