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Music Therapy Provides Peace of Mind for Parents with Sick Children
The heartbeat is the most basic, beautiful metronome. It is such a powerful, audible representation of life and of the human experience. A mother of a patient once told me, › Continue Reading The post...
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Not Allowing the Pain To Win
I get a little emotional when I think about the amount of pain my daughter was experiencing before she attended the Functional Independence Restoration Program, which is an intensive, inpatient...
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A Familiar Place
What was once a very scary and confusing place is now a familiar and comforting place for me and my family. “I know this place like the back of my › Continue Reading The post A Familiar Place appeared...
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The School Within the Hospital
Parents tell me all the time that their child’s favorite part of his or her stay in the hospital had to do with school. Not missing school, but being in › Continue Reading The post The School Within...
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Reds Opening Day, Welage Family Style
The tradition of Opening Day is a big deal in Cincinnati. The return of baseball is treated as a holiday and Reds fans celebrate accordingly. So when one local family › Continue Reading The post Reds...
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How ‘Patiently Made’ Has Brought Us Closer Together
This is my and my daughter’s second year participating in Patiently Made, and we love it. Patiently Made started last year as a way to have patients, staff and members › Continue Reading The post How...
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Patrick Can Fly: SOAR Program Helps Kids with ASD
We planned our family vacation like most parents do. We scheduled days off work, booked flights, made reservations, bought amusement park tickets, and packed our bags. Unlike most parents, we ›...
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Send in the Clowns
Patch Adams had it right. The medical doctor and clown, famously portrayed by the late Robin Williams in a 1998 biopic of the same name, has spent his life showing › Continue Reading The post Send in...
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The Speech: Casmir’s Stamp on His Years as President
Last Friday we had the great pleasure of watching Casmir Thornberry leave the hospital for just a few hours to give his long-awaited commencement speech as the senior class president › Continue Reading...
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Portrait of a Soul – The Healing Power of Art
Beautiful. A picture may be worth a thousand words, but “beautiful” is the best way to describe the paintings unveiled to families for the first time at the recently opened › Continue Reading The post...
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Trick-or-Treating in the Perlman Center
Monsters, princesses and a host of other cute characters flooded the halls of the E building this week for two fun days of trick-or-treating at the hospital! Together with › Continue Reading The...
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International Adoption: You Don’t Have to Do It Alone
One day, no different really from any other work day, I happened to be riding one of the employee shuttles at Cincinnati Children’s with a great guy who was a › Continue Reading The post International...
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Champions Share New Year’s Wishes
As we prepare to say goodbye to 2015 and ring in the new year, we’ve enlisted the help of some of our Champions patients and their families to help us › Continue Reading The post Champions Share New...
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CBDI School Program Puts Hope Atop Syllabus
David Cheung walks onto the inpatient unit in the Cancer and Blood Diseases Institute (CBDI) just before 11 on a Monday morning, carrying a bag filled with school supplies marked › Continue Reading The...
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Patient Story Videos You Shouldn’t Miss
Below, you will find eight videos that were created in 2015 that you should’t miss. These stories did not find their way onto our blog or other social media channels in the › Continue Reading The post...
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IBD: 3 Lessons from an Experienced Parent
Ten years ago, it was starting to become clear that my 12-year-old son was not well. At first I’d assumed his string of occasional fevers and complaints of stomach pain › Continue Reading The post IBD:...
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Friendship, Sisterhood, and Laughter Through Tears
“Laughter through tears is my favorite emotion.” ~ Truvy Jones, Steel Magnolias When I was cast as Truvy Jones last fall in my first college theatre production, Steel Magnolias – › Continue Reading...
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Receiving Your Child’s Diagnosis: What to Do Next
Whether your child has received a diagnosis quickly or has traveled a long journey to eventually get one, receiving an eventual diagnosis can bring about a mixture of emotions. On › Continue Reading...
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I See You, Mama
I see you, mama. You are smiling at the nurses as you talk to them outside your child’s room, but I see the worry etched across your forehead, the exhaustion › Continue Reading The post I See You, Mama...
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Kidney Transplant: Angely Advocates for Organ Donation Through Art
I’ll never forget how my daughter came to realize the grave importance of sharing her transplant story. Angely was 11 years old at the time and in need of a › Continue Reading The post Kidney...
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Waterproof Casts For Kids
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Celebrating Superheroes: ArtWorks Capes for 25 Patients and their Siblings
The Hero Design Company is an ongoing ArtWorks initiative started in 2012. Each season, 15 or so design apprentices ages 17-21 are selected to research and design unique superhero capes › Continue...
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Sedation and General Anesthesia: What’s the Difference?
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Six Highlights of Child Life & Integrative Care
Child Life Month is celebrated every March, honoring the caregivers who go above and beyond medicine for patients and families every day. The members of our Child Life and Integrative › Continue...
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Helpful Tips for When Your Child is Hospitalized
Our mighty daughter entered into this world on Christmas Day. Except, she was three months early. Doctors determined that for her safety, it was for the best. She measured 12 › Continue Reading The...
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New Animals Highlight Burnet Campus Concourse Updates
If you have been to Burnet Campus lately you have probably noticed the exciting changes that happened in our main concourse over the past year or so. Crews have been › Continue Reading The post New...
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Traveling for our Son’s Endoscopic Craniosynostosis Surgery: What We Learned
As a new mother, you want everything for your baby to be the absolute best from the get-go. I had no idea when my son Cillian was born that anything › Continue Reading The post Traveling for our Son’s...
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Sleep Study for Kids: What’s It Like?
A sleep study is kind of a funny thing. It takes place overnight at the hospital, but isn’t really a hospitalization. Our family has now experienced two sleep studies – › Continue Reading The post...
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