by Ruth Coppard | Aug 12, 2013 | Bereavement
Yesterday we were talking of brain tumours. A brain tumour is cruel in that it sometime remits, that parents are told that this might get better. Many parents research wildly and find all sorts of examples where people got better, and then pursue everything that seems...
by Ruth Coppard | Jul 18, 2013 | Bereavement
Today I was talking with a group of mums, all of whom have children with problems – as well as children who dont have anything in particular wrong with them. One of the mums was explaining how she felt when her child was first diagnosed as being on the autistic...
by Ruth Coppard | Jun 11, 2013 | Bereavement
I was musing about Bereavement. This affects almost everyone from pretty early on. Small children remark on the dead bees on the pavement, pets die, flowers die – other people know people and things which die. But it is something most of us in a European culture are...
by Ruth Coppard | Jul 28, 2011 | Bereavement
Just had a meeting with a legal eagle – a barrister and the solicitor who has asked me to write the report. Martin was bereaved of his sister in a fairly awful accident which he witnessed. She was expected to survive but four days after the accident suddenly died....
by Ruth Coppard | Jul 21, 2011 | Bereavement
One of the hardest things about working with children is determining how much of the problem lies in what particular arena. So many of the children have very real and multiple difficulties. So the child whose father left when he was a toddler, might also be struggling...
by Ruth Coppard | Jun 23, 2011 | Bereavement
‘Two children whose father has died have just been in. It was a sudden and quite unexpected death, the sort called tragic. And they seemed to cope quite well in the immediate aftermath. It helped that their mum was brilliant and sensible and able to support them even...
