A Father's Love Through a Child's Diagnosis

So what do you mean by love team? Go.

When

I joined the team.

It was a year and a half, two years before Lynn died.

I realized that there were lots of people seeing her.

She was in a facility.

He was not 24-7 at home, but he was the primary caregiver because his wife had died.

Yeah.

So I just noticed that there were lots of people visiting and calling him and calling him dad.

Her girlfriends would call him dad.

No, no, Lynn's girlfriends.

Lynn's girlfriends would call me

dad.

No, no, no, my girlfriends called me dad.

That would be sick.

That would be

so sick.

Anyway, so I noticed that there was a lot going on here.

And after she died, we realized that what had happened rather organically with that family and friends all being on the same page.

all helping one another, checking in with one another, sharing with one another, we realized that this was something that had happened organically that needs to be replicated.

And so he came up with these four pillars of a love team.

that we talk about whenever we get a chance.

But it formalizes that and helps, hopefully teaches people that it's much better for the loved one as well as for every member of the care team and the principal caregiver.

It's so much better to have that kind of support and that kind of reinforcement and multiple points of view and knowledge.

We just found it to be so Valuable.