The couple also were featured in the 2013 Telly Awards-winning video, “ Relationships After TBI” and in a New York Times feature article. Her memoir, Learning By Accident: A Caregiver’s True Story of Fear, Family, and Hope, published by Skyhorse Press in 2014, recounts how she and Hugh rebuilt their relationship and their lives during the long and difficult rehabilitation process.
When Hugh returned to work as a chief financial officer two years after the accident, Rawlins-who had always harbored a dream of being a writer-began writing a memoir on her experiences. Rawlins, who had spent her career working in human resources, began keeping a journal during her husband’s rehabilitation. It is a real skill that people can develop.”
I fell apart a year and a half after my husband’s injury. I know that I have to take care of myself because I learned that with my husband. I have so much experience now in caregiving that I can compartmentalize a little bit,” she adds. However, Rawlins notes that it is not easy, either. Some might view her recent experiences as comparable to the biblical Job. And most recently, she helped her husband take care of his father through Parkinson's disease until he passed away last September, and is preparing to have her mother-in-law move in this spring. Then, a year after her husband made a recovery bordering on the miraculous, Rawlins became a caregiver to her parents, as described in her prize-winning story below.
Rosemary Rawlins, right, and her mother in "The Bistro."įor much of the past 13 years, Rosemary Rawlins has found herself thrust into the role of family caregiver in a series of very different scenarios.įirst, her husband, Hugh, suffered a severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) after being hit by a car while riding a bike in 2002 and underwent two years of arduous rehabilitation.
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