From USA Today:

Christine Frisbee says she wants people to remember what she calls the “forgotten siblings” — the brothers and sisters of children with chronic illnesses.

Her book, “Day by Day,” compiles diary entries from children with seriously ill siblings. Frisbee writes from experience.

Frisbee’s teenage son, Rich, died in 1989. He had leukemia. In the almost 12 months from the diagnosis to Rich’s death, Christine and her husband, Rick, the parents of five children, shuttled back and forth to the hospital each day. And in the hectic life of a parent with a seriously ill child, Frisbee realized she made little time for her other children, who, just like other children, needed their parents.

… Reading through the entries of the book, published by the Richard D. Frisbee III Foundation, one thing becomes clear: As families try to cope with the illness, the healthy children feel as if they have become an afterthought to their parents.

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