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Caregiver Burnout and the Break Nobody Takes | Carolyn Harris, LaToya Hillson & Terri Gortnar
Terri Gortnar was told her three year old daughter wouldn't see her tenth birthday. Six weeks later, she found out her son had the same disease.
This episode is about what happens to the person doing the caring. Terri is a mom of two children with CLN2 Batten disease and the co-founder of the Canadian CLN2 Foundation.
She's joined by Carolyn Harris, Respite Coordinator at Empower Simcoe, and LaToya Hillson, a Certified Child Life Specialist on the Paediatric Advanced Care Team at SickKids.
Together they get into the parts of caregiving nobody warns you about. The paperwork. The career you…
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