I am delighted to host this guest post by Dr. Yona Lonsky. Dr. Yunsky is a Clinician-Scientist in Adult Neurodevelopmental Services and Director of the Health Care Access Research and Developmental Disabilities (H-CARDD) Program at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. She’s also a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry
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THE CAREGIVERS' LIVING ROOM - A Blog by Donna Thomson: Should My Daughter Be Her Brother’s Keeper?
When my daughter Natalie was about three, her favourite game was ‘hospital’. This involved her lying in bed with toilet paper wrapped around her leg, making a cast. The whole imobilized limb was then strung up with a skipping rope over a hook on ceiling creating a makeshift ‘traction’ device.
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