Jaye Marie and Anita Dawes

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You have to do a lot of unusual things as a carer. Almost as many unusual things as when you are a parent. In neither role, though, do you expect to be required to supply your son with mind-altering substances, yet that is exactly what I have been tasked with doing this week.

One of the hidden side effects of a brain injury such as that suffered by my son, is an over-sensitivity to stimulants of any kind. A single cup of instant coffee can have the same effect on him as a quadruple espresso would have on me and the same holds true of other substances that most of us would find innocuous. Including chocolate.

No, I am not talking about the expansion of waistlines… that would definitely be me who suffered the greatest effect there. Sadly, he did not inherit his metabolic talents from the maternal…