Jack & Jill: Angels in your darkest hour

Jack & Jill help normalise family life for those caring for children with serious health issues, says Helen O’Callaghan.

Jack & Jill: Angels in your darkest hour

Jack & Jill help normalise family life for those caring for children with serious health issues, says Helen O’Callaghan.

Like angels coming into your home so you can walk out the door — that’s how Rosscarbery-based mum Anita Jennings describes the nurses organised by the Jack & Jill Children’s Foundation, who provide her only child, Olivia, with 48 hours of home nursing monthly. The four-year-old was diagnosed in May with EIEE37 (early infantile epileptic encephalopathy-37) — a rare genetic condition.

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