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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Generally, the hospital will try to get you to pinpoint people who can help.  Can they call your child's school so they kids can stay with a classmate's family?  Have you joined a temple or church - they could go with a congregant's family.  Stuff like that.  They know calling foster care is a last resort.  [/quote]

Op here. I didn’t realize the hospital would help this way. This is very reassuring. Thank you.[/quote]

Wouldn't your family who lives far away fly in immediately upon hearing you're in the hospital?

I'd move mountains to get to my sister (and my nephews) the moment I found out she was in the hospital.. [/quote]

Same here.

OP, is there a reason your family wouldn’t fly to where you are to help?[/quote]

Op here. My family is extremely dysfunctional. My mother is in and out of rehab/jail and i haven’t seen her in 10 years. Most of my family members have a lot of problems. There are possibly one or two who are functional enough to help, but I don’t think they would come. My brother maybe would, but I’m not sure. My dad would come but it would take days for him to get here (he’s just so flaky/out of it a lot of the time and is a total hippie).

My in laws are even worse unfortunately.

My youngest child was hospitalized for a week almost a year ago, we weren’t totally sure he’d make it, and my brother didn’t come. My dad did come for a couple days but left before my son even got out of the hospital.

Our nanny did help, the problem is she doesn’t drive or speak English (she speaks my native language), so she was able to provide childcare to an extent but her plate is also very full with her own marriage/children. She took my older son to her house for the week and I felt a bit uncomfortable with him staying there but it turned out OK.

My friends did help too, with driving older DS to places and meals. But it wasn’t like the Calvary showed up. Maybe we were too quiet about what was happening. And now we live in a different city altogether. [/quote]

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