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Aged 51-60
Interview 04  

Interview 04

Age at Interview: 58
Sex: Female
Background: Nurse, married with three adult children. Ethnic background/nationality: White British.
Brief outline:In October 2004, her son had a motorbike accident and was admitted to ICU. He had a serious head injury and broken jaw.

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She wanted to see how her son would progress without outside influences but also wondered if it was too soon for them to think about joining support groups.

 



I don't think I would want to belong to, the support group that we have been offered, there is one specifically for head injuries and there's an organisation as well and I've never felt that I wanted to belong to that because I feel that my son is evolving out of this and I don't want to feel that I know where he should be or I know what's coming. I want to remain supporting him in terms of where he's actually at. And I feel that if I belong to something like that then perhaps I would be closing a few doors. Does that make sense? I want to listen to him, to how he feels, to how he's coming out of it. So I haven't actually joined anything like that, not yet. But again, you know, maybe in time, but, I keep using this expression, “it's too soon” [laughs].

It's too soon. 
Jonathan Miller - Intensive care
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