Survivorship, Up Close and Personal

  More than 80 percent of children with a cancer diagnosis will be a survivor and live into adulthood. One in 600 adults will be a childhood cancer survivor. This is a vast improvement over years past when a cancer diagnosis was much more foreboding. But as a...

Art as a Communication Tool

Art offers children a fun, nonverbal, symbolic means of communicating. When the capacity for verbal expression is not fully developed or a child/teen may be unable or unwilling to verbalize their feelings, art inspires communication. This can be particularly true for...

When a Child is in Pain

There are few things worse than seeing your child in pain. It may be that she suffers from a chronic life-limiting or life-threatening illness resulting in prolonged periods of physical pain. He may be required to undergo painful procedures and treatments with painful...

Saying ‘Yes’ Isn’t Always Easy

The sweet infant that you swaddled in warm baby blankets and held in your arms, promising to keep him safe forever is now growing up. Independence is rearing its ugly head. But your child is a special child with chronic and painful illnesses, and you are a special...