In Keep Your Head Up: A Mother's Story of Chasing Joy in the Face of Grief, experienced pediatrician and mother of a young daughter with complicated medical issues, Dr. Tasha Faruqui, delivers an incredible tale of her family's difficult but rewarding journey in the face of unimaginable obstacles and challenges. The book gives a voice to the parents and loved ones of terminally ill children, showing you how to provide comfort, community, and hope in situations that seem bleak. It discusses terminal illness with sincere and compassionate honesty and deep, firsthand understanding of the ways in which diagnoses impact children and their families. Dr. Faruqui's beautifully narrated and heartfelt perspective offers powerful lessons about familial love and the hardships we can all learn to endure with grace, resilience, and humanity. She walks you through how to provide children with serious, complicated, and terminal illnesses the gift of a full life, packed with meaning and connection. Keep Your Head Up provides parents and families of sick children with devastating diagnoses a way to survive the confusion that comes with uncertain and hard-to-understand medical conditions, complicated and bureaucratic healthcare systems, and the extraordinary emotional swings that come hand-in-hand with these situations. Perfect for the parents, families, and friends of terminally ill children, Keep Your Head Up is also invaluable for healthcare professionals and educators who help patients navigate these diagnoses. It's a compelling discussion from an author who combines deep medical experience and competence with the insight and empathy of a mother who has unexpectedly found herself in this uniquely difficult position.