Henry – What’s the best advice you have for others in your situation?
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Constantly be there to answer his questions, his needs and demonstrate to a child, or young adult or whatever, that you're not walking away, that you're right in there trying to help the rehab. One of the incidents in the hospital out there, I think his mother and I were both there, but anyway, he was talking and there were five other patients in the same ward and he said, "You know dad, you're here a lot, mother's here a lot, those two fellows over there, nobody ever comes to see them." And I said, "Well, why not?" He said—one had been in a motorcycle accident and a car accident. He said that their parents apparently have told them, "You got yourself into this, now you get yourself out," and they never showed up.
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Constantly be there to answer his questions, his needs and demonstrate to a child, or young adult or whatever, that you're not walking away, that you're right in there trying to help the rehab. One of the incidents in the hospital out there, I think his mother and I were both there, but anyway, he was talking and there were five other patients in the same ward and he said, "You know dad, you're here a lot, mother's here a lot, those two fellows over there, nobody ever comes to see them." And I said, "Well, why not?" He said—one had been in a motorcycle accident and a car accident. He said that their parents apparently have told them, "You got yourself into this, now you get yourself out," and they never showed up.