The Letterbox Podcast
Dear Medical Parents| Letter 6: A Family’s NICU Story & Tiny Tickers UK Blog Post
To Medical Parents | NICU Awareness Week — Letter Six For the sixth letter in our NICU Awareness Week series, Dr Katherine shares a letter to the parents living through the unimaginable: NICU and PICU parents, heart parents, and families whose children have been seriously ill. Before sharing her original piece for Tiny Tickers, Katherine writes directly to other medical parents about fear, guilt, exhaustion, love, uncertainty and the complicated reality of feeling incredibly lucky and incredibly sad at the same time. The letter that follows, From My Heart to Yours: Nobody Prepared Us For This , was originally written for Tiny Tickers and reflects on the emotional impact of congenital heart disease, life in hospital, siblings, relationships, survival mode and what happens after the medical crisis. Thank you to Tiny Tickers for allowing us to share Katherine’s blog as part of this series. Tiny Tickers supports babies with serious heart conditions and their families across the UK. ( Tiny Tickers ) Written and read by @drkatherinewrites . If this letter resonates with you, share it with another NICU, PICU or heart parent who might need to hear that they are not alone. Listen to The Letterbox Podcast and send your own letter: theletterboxpodcast@outlook.com Credits: Written & read by Dr Katherine — @drkatherinewrites Original blog published by Tiny Tickers — @tinytickers Shared with permission as part of The Letterbox Podcast’s NICU Awareness Week series.
