Food, Toys and Love: Pediatric Palliative Care

“Food, toys and love are what we need to live.” (1) (six-year-old-child) Pediatric palliative care is a new frontier in the care of seriously ill children.  There are many fearful misconceptions about palliative care; thus understanding what it means is an important...

Missing Out on “Normal”

“If kids are normal, not sick, they like to be treated special.  But if kids have a disease, they wanted to be treated normal.” (eleven-year-old girl) “Longing for normalcy” is a refrain of many children* after a diagnosis of illness. The child often...