School gives families a healing element of ordinary life in what can be an
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institutional world of sickness, A 13-year-old in-patient who has had kidney
disease and is nearing the end of her third stint in hospital tells me: "I come to
the classroom and talk to other people, which is nice rather than sitting in bed
all day doing nothing and feeling too warm and sticky. And my mum can go
and do the shopping she needs to. At the moment, on steroids, I get stressed
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