Pulling Through: Help for Families Navigating Life-Changing Illness
"And at that exact moment, the earth tipped, and we all slid into a parallel universe..."

On Christmas Day 2016, the Jessops were just an ordinary family, but on Boxing Day, one near-death experience swept them all into the bewildering world of hospitals and serious illness, and their lives changed forever.

Pulling Through is a handbook of everything Catherine has learned on their journey. It covers many practicalities, such as explaining hospital tests and scans, jargon-busting medical terms, finance, rehabilitation and more. But it also illuminates the emotional aspect of illness and how massively it affects family and friends. There are chapters on the power of nature, music, counselling, optimism and humour, and how to look after the mental health of both patient and carer.

This is a book of hope, help and reassurance on every aspect of coping with life-changing illness in the family: the good, the bad, the funny, the sad, and the useful. If you, or someone you know, has a life-changing illness, then this book is here to help.

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Pulling Through: Help for Families Navigating Life-Changing Illness
"And at that exact moment, the earth tipped, and we all slid into a parallel universe..."

On Christmas Day 2016, the Jessops were just an ordinary family, but on Boxing Day, one near-death experience swept them all into the bewildering world of hospitals and serious illness, and their lives changed forever.

Pulling Through is a handbook of everything Catherine has learned on their journey. It covers many practicalities, such as explaining hospital tests and scans, jargon-busting medical terms, finance, rehabilitation and more. But it also illuminates the emotional aspect of illness and how massively it affects family and friends. There are chapters on the power of nature, music, counselling, optimism and humour, and how to look after the mental health of both patient and carer.

This is a book of hope, help and reassurance on every aspect of coping with life-changing illness in the family: the good, the bad, the funny, the sad, and the useful. If you, or someone you know, has a life-changing illness, then this book is here to help.

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Pulling Through: Help for Families Navigating Life-Changing Illness

Pulling Through: Help for Families Navigating Life-Changing Illness

by Catherine Jessop
Pulling Through: Help for Families Navigating Life-Changing Illness

Pulling Through: Help for Families Navigating Life-Changing Illness

by Catherine Jessop

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Overview

"And at that exact moment, the earth tipped, and we all slid into a parallel universe..."

On Christmas Day 2016, the Jessops were just an ordinary family, but on Boxing Day, one near-death experience swept them all into the bewildering world of hospitals and serious illness, and their lives changed forever.

Pulling Through is a handbook of everything Catherine has learned on their journey. It covers many practicalities, such as explaining hospital tests and scans, jargon-busting medical terms, finance, rehabilitation and more. But it also illuminates the emotional aspect of illness and how massively it affects family and friends. There are chapters on the power of nature, music, counselling, optimism and humour, and how to look after the mental health of both patient and carer.

This is a book of hope, help and reassurance on every aspect of coping with life-changing illness in the family: the good, the bad, the funny, the sad, and the useful. If you, or someone you know, has a life-changing illness, then this book is here to help.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781787753723
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Publication date: 08/19/2021
Pages: 304
Product dimensions: 5.43(w) x 8.43(h) x 0.94(d)

About the Author

Catherine Jessop is a writer with a background in publishing and marketing, as well as a full-time carer for her husband Alan, who has a permanent brain injury following autoimmune encephalitis. She has also worked in primary schools with children with learning difficulties and special needs. She writes a weekly blog promoting a variety of independent publishers for Compass Independent Publishing Services. She has three children, two stepchildren, four grandchildren and a dog, and lives in West London.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements 11

Introduction 13

1 Beginning 15

2 A Diagnosis 33

3 A Matter of Life and Death 38

4 A Whole New World 42

5 Hospital Hacks: The Practical Stuff 62

6 How It All Works: The Mechanics of a Hospital 82

7 All Hail the Hospital 99

8 It's a Family Affair: Talking and Listening to Children, Siblings and Parents 108

9 You've Got a Friend in Me: Assembling an Army 127

10 Reasons to be Cheerful: How to be Happy in Hard Times 140

11 Crazy for You: The Mental Health of the Patient and the Carer 158

12 Using the Outside to Help the Inside: The Healing Power of Nature 181

13 Recovery: Normal Service will not be Resumed 193

14 Help! Getting the Practical Support You Need 213

15 The Big Questions 231

16 One Day More: The Future 253

Appendix 1 A Medical Jargon Buster 260

Appendix 2 Sources of Help and Support 266

References, Bibliography and Further Reading 270

Index 293

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