About us
In Their Corner did not start as a project. It started as a notebook, in a hospital room, during the hardest weeks of one family's life.
The story
Caroline's older brother spent weeks in an intensive care unit after a serious accident. Her family learned that unit the hard way, one alarm and one shift change at a time.
Her siblings reacted in opposite ways. Some could not stay in the room. Caroline could not leave it. Rather than look away, she sat beside his bed with a notebook and recorded everything: the medications, the numbers, the small changes, the questions she was too afraid to ask out loud. That notebook gave her both a purpose and a lesson: every patient needs someone in their corner.
Her brother is still working his way back, now in rehab, and the notebook is still being written in. On the hardest days, the nurses and doctors in that unit carried her family, and she has never forgotten it.
The founder
Caroline Woram founded In Their Corner in the summer of 2026. She is a student from Rockville Centre on Long Island, New York. She works at a physical therapy clinic, where she helps patients through their rehabilitation, and she plans to study nursing with a focus on critical care.
During her brother's hospitalization, Caroline was the one who tracked his medications, wrote down what the doctors said at rounds, and asked the questions her family was too overwhelmed to ask. She built this guide so that the next family walking into an ICU does not have to figure all of that out alone.
A note from Caroline
I did not plan any of this. My brother got hurt, and I ended up in a chair next to his bed with a spiral notebook because writing things down was the only thing that made me feel useful. I wrote the medication names even when I could not pronounce them. I wrote what the nurses said at seven in the morning so I could repeat it to my mom at noon.
Some of my siblings could not walk into that room. I could not walk out of it. For a long time I thought one of us was handling it wrong. A nurse told me neither of us was, and I have held onto that ever since.
My brother is still recovering. He is in rehab now, working his way back, and the notebook is still going with him. On the hardest days the nurses carried us, and I never forgot it. This guide is my way of handing my notebook to the next family in that hallway. I hope you never need it. If you do, I hope it makes you feel less alone.
Caroline Woram
For additional information, you can reach her at carolineworam17@gmail.com.
How we got here
Caroline's older brother is admitted to an intensive care unit after a serious accident. Caroline starts a notebook at his bedside and records medications, numbers, and questions every day.
Her brother recovers. The family keeps the notebook. Caroline keeps thinking about the families in the waiting room who had no idea what the machines meant or who to ask.
Caroline turns the notebook into a printed trifold guide: what the monitors mean, who is on the care team, how to advocate, and support for siblings and caregivers. It is free for every family.
This site brings the guide online with interactive tools, so any family anywhere can use it. The next step is placing the printed guide at Mount Sinai South Nassau, and then at more hospitals after that.
It means understanding what is happening and asking the right questions, wherever you are. This guide exists to help you do both.
Get the free guide