by Child Life On Call | Sep 20, 2021 | Pain Management, Preparation & Support, Uncategorized
By: Katie Taylor, CCLS Child Life On Call This is a sponsored post by Gebauer Company, makers of Pain Ease Needle phobia is seldom just about the moment of the injection. It’s a whole combination of things including the lead up, the actual process, the feelings and...
by Child Life On Call | Mar 22, 2021 | Grief & Bereavement
You can read Scott’s story in a blog post below, or listen to it here. *Trigger Warning: Child Loss Scott is the father of Maddie, who had a rare cancerous tumor and unfortunately passed away in January 2018 when she was just three and a half years old. Despite...
by Child Life On Call | Apr 11, 2019 | Empowered Parent Tips, Preparation & Support, Uncategorized
“Choose hope because why would you choose the alternative?” Jamie, now in her thirties and the Director of Child Life an Inova Children’s Hospital, recounts her story with her mother as the discuss her congenital heart defect and how she acquired HIV through a...
by Child Life On Call | Jan 21, 2019 | Empowered Parent Tips, Medical Play, Uncategorized
“She was on a ventilator, in a coma with no response for nine days.” This is the story from a mother whose daughter had a brain and spinal cord infection. This is Michelle’s Story. By: Clare Kelley It’s 2002 and Michelle’s daughter Brynn is having...