Preparing Your Child For Surgery

Having a child needing to go through surgery can be a difficult time for the family. Who is it really the hardest on though? The parents or the child?

Well, Dennis O’rourke, posted an article up a week ago at Dad Center called Preparing Your Child for Surgery. Dennis makes a list of suggestions:

# Visit the pediatric unit with your child to get them familiar with where they will be staying.
# Ask the doctor if your child can have their favorite meal while in the hospital.
# Use a doll to demostrate in simple terms where your child will be operated on.
# Bring along a toy that your child hasn’t seen in a while that they can play with while in the hospital.
# If the hospital room has a TV with a DVD player, bring your child’s favorite show or movie so that they can watch it while they recover.
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My brother in-law, age 15, just recently had a kidney transplant. Maybe he could let us know if this list would have helped him.