Child Life

I love child life specialists in hospitals and Cincinnati has awesome professionals working in their child life and patient advocate departments.  They really care about the patients and the families.  While I attended the lecture this morning, Samuel got to go to the room with the children (he asked Grandma Shari if she would stay with him so she attended that room too!)  Samuel had a great time playing with the tools, and of course, Samuel, aka Mr Safety, wore the goggles while playing! 

The child life specialist also helped so much during Samuel's appointment.  Samuel was doing pretty well until the doctor needed to do the exam and Samuel would have none of that.  The nurse, two interns, and doctor along with myself tried to get Samuel to calm down.  One of the interns even showed Samuel his iPad with a cool game and nothing worked to get Samuel to let the doctor look at him.  Then the child life specialist entered the room and started blowing bubbles then asked Samuel if he would like to try to blow some bubbles.  That was all it took, Samuel settled down.  Popped bubbles that the child life specialist had blown then then blew bubbles back at us.  Technology is wonderful, but sometimes all that is needed is a caring person with a bottle of bubbles to make everything better!