{"id":4768,"date":"2012-10-08T13:32:09","date_gmt":"2012-10-08T17:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.howtocopewithpain.org\/blog\/?p=4768"},"modified":"2016-11-16T19:40:42","modified_gmt":"2016-11-16T23:40:42","slug":"book-review-when-can-we-run-dance-and-play-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.howtocopewithpain.org\/blog\/4768\/book-review-when-can-we-run-dance-and-play-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: When Can We Run, Dance, and Play Again?”<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"

Carla Valentino developed a severe neurological pain condition, CRPS (also called RSD), after spraining her ankle. When her young daughter asked\u00a0Carla when they’d be able to\u00a0play again, this book was born. It’s a lovely, gentle, positive\u00a0story.<\/p>\n

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We all know that pain diseases affect not just the person with the illness, but their family and friends too. Kids sometimes have a hard time understanding the facts about\u00a0significant medical illness as well as\u00a0why\u00a0their family member isn’t their normal self. This book helps address these issues in several ways:<\/p>\n

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  1. It normalizes\u00a0a family’s experience with illness.<\/li>\n
  2. It specifically states that it’s not the child’s fault.<\/li>\n
  3. It lets children know that their family member is trying to get better, and wants to play with them again.<\/li>\n
  4. It suggests other ways for a family to be close and have fun, even with illness.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I would strongly recommend this book as a way of starting a dialogue with young children when there’s an illness in a family. An added bonus is that 20% of the\u00a0proceeds from the book go to support CRPS research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Carla Valentino developed a severe neurological pain condition, CRPS (also called RSD), after spraining her ankle. When her young daughter asked\u00a0Carla when they’d be able to\u00a0play again, this book was born. It’s a lovely, gentle, positive\u00a0story. We all know that pain diseases affect not just the person with the illness, but their family and friends […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocopewithpain.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocopewithpain.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocopewithpain.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocopewithpain.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocopewithpain.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4768"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocopewithpain.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7750,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocopewithpain.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4768\/revisions\/7750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocopewithpain.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocopewithpain.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocopewithpain.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}