# Support group for dopers with ill children **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 5, 2002, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/support-group-for-dopers-with-ill-children/112413 "2002-06-05T01:06:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Kricket](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f14d63/32.png) [@Kricket](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kricket)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2002, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/support-group-for-dopers-with-ill-children/112413/1 "2002-06-05T01:06:52Z")
I know that I am not the only one out there with a chronically ill child. I hope Hillbilly Queen doesn’t take it wrong if I were to want to include her in this thread. I read her thread and didn’t want to hijack it. Heartbreaking. What I would like to do is have a thread for those of us with children in our lives that have special needs, are very sick and the like. I have tried to find a support group to just have other parents around to let off steam, share triumphs, laugh and cry. I found one and they want a fee to join. My funds are depleated between numerous hospitals. We don’t even have to keep a thread going. Maybe if we exchanged IM numbers and names. ---
**Author:** ![Kricket](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f14d63/32.png) [@Kricket](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kricket)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2002, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/support-group-for-dopers-with-ill-children/112413/2 "2002-06-05T16:51:07Z")
Okay, so maybe it isn’t such a good idea. ---
**Author:** ![Kricket](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f14d63/32.png) [@Kricket](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kricket)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2002, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/support-group-for-dopers-with-ill-children/112413/3 "2002-06-12T03:29:07Z")
There has to be someone out there who wants to share. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/2bfe46/32.png) [@John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Carter_of_Mars)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2002, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/support-group-for-dopers-with-ill-children/112413/4 "2002-06-12T04:14:39Z")
**Kricket** : I’m sorry about your child’s medical problems. The below link may or may not be what you are looking for, but it’s free and I hope it helps. [http://boards.webmd.com/roundtable\_topic/1138](http://boards.webmd.com/roundtable_topic/1138)