Description
When a child is diagnosed with cancer, life flips upside-down. Suddenly, our days (and our thoughts) are dominated by doctors, nurses, child life specialists, and a million technical terms that will make anyones head spin. Add extreme fear and anxiety to that, and youve got a recipe for the most stressful time in a familys life.
What Happens When a Kid Has Cancer is a book written with purpose of relieving the anxiety and confusion that comes from a childs cancer diagnosis and treatment.
What Happens When a Kid Has Cancer covers the main points of pediatric cancer what it is and what the experience of treatment is like and shows how it can change a kids day. The book is great for ages 4 -10 and discusses:
The science of cancer
Changes to routines
Surgery and anesthesia
Chemotherapy
Hair loss and hair changes
Port, central line, and tubies
Hospital stays
Radiation
Scans and blood draws
Emotions relating to cancer
Over the course of a year and with the help of both experts and families who have been through pediatric cancer, author and illustrator Sara Olsher explains the science of cancer (in an age-appropriate, totally non-scary way) and uses an illustrated calendar to show how various treatments affect a childs day-to-day. This method of teaching is based on decades of solid science about how kids learn and cope with the major day-to-day changes that result from issues like cancer. By creating a routine that kids can see and understand, parents can restore a sense of safety and predictability in their kids lives, helping them to be more resilient in the face of lifes inevitable challenges. What Happens When a Kid Has Cancer? helps families that want to reduce their kids anxiety surrounding a very scary diagnosis. It aims to empower kids with knowledge, which is proven to help kids through traumatic situations.
Author: Sara Olsher
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Untangle Books
Published: 04/24/2021
Pages: 36
Weight: 0.23lbs
Size: 8.50h x 8.50w x 0.10d
ISBN: 9781734864175
Language: English
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