SibCare: The Trip You Never Planned to Take

SibCare: The Trip You Never Planned to Take provides invaluable guidance to anyone involved in the care of a brother or sister who is seriously ill or disabled. Most folks don’t expect to care for a sibling with medical problems. Most folks don’t even think about it. Then, Bam! Your life is suddenly interrupted by a brother’s or sister’s health crisis.This book grew out of Taffy Cannon’s experiences with her own brother’s complicated, long-distance illness. It’s organized to make it easy to find the information you need and avoid what you don’t. How do you get started? What do you need to know, and how can you find it out? What’s the medical situation, and what does that mean? What legal paperwork do you need, and why? And perhaps most important, how do you maintain your own sanity?Sibling relationships are usually the longest of your entire life. Your parents are there at the beginning. A partner and children may join you for the middle and later years. But the sibs are generally along for the entire journey, marching with you side by side through your family’s history.SibCare: The Trip You Never Planned to Take is your road map when that family journey detours into medical terrain.