Can caring make you sick?
By Elizabeth Cohen, CNN Senior Medical Correspondent
May 20, 2010 8:58 a.m. EDT
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
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(CNN) -- Soon after Paul Coskie's bicycle collided with a car, it became clear to his mother that her son would be sick for a very long time, and indeed he was. The 13-year-old boy went into a coma for a month and spent six months total in the hospital.
What his mother didn't know at the time was that Paul's collision would eventually claim another victim -- one who was nowhere near the accident scene.
After taking care of her son for a year, Dixie Fremont-Smith Coskie started to lose her balance, stumbling at times when she walked. Then she became so weak she couldn't get out of bed.
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