Beyond the patient – Little Girl’s Lullaby
Hearing and being cherished, both life-lines for a spirited young girl with multiple medical challenges, inspired a remarkable composition
The corridors of death
Clinical encounters during a child’s journey with a life-limiting disability raises questions around the dissonance of the hospital environment
Autism, art and animals
The positive impact of animal companions and the arts for children with autism
My Mistake
Hypothetical exploration of a young patient dying due to the poet’s oversight
Resilience in the siblings of disabled children
An insider perspective around disability within the family unit contextualized through current research
A Little Boy, A Little Time
The heart-wrenching impact of encountering young children with life limiting AIDS/HIV upon the author
The Ripple Effect
Conflicts and complexity of care – inspired by a mother’s personal experience
Sun-Spun
The poet observes a child with autism absorbed in play and feels privileged to be invited to join her world
Desert Rose
An encounter with a young girl in Zimbabwe is pivotal in this poet’s choice of medicine as a career
Things were rubbish until Josie came to love me
The pivotal role of dogs as companions for those living with disability
The Truth
After visiting a children’s cancer-ward in Malaysia – the author speculates about ‘the gateway between life and death’
It’s all in the genes
A family’s challenges around the acceptance and perceptions of their daughter living with Downs Syndrome
The Veil
The impossibility of cognitively coming to terms with news of a young baby’s imminent death