Thursday, November 20, 2003 TODAY
Loma Linda UniversityChildren's news
- Children's Hospital finds disguised patients during costume party
- Radiation medicine party brings lots of cheer
Children's Hospital finds disguised patients during costume party
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| Angelo Delonnie, 4, poses for a picture with the pumpkin he painted at the Children’s Hospital costume party. | Felicia Hall (right), pediatric clinical dietician, meets her match in AJ Mendoza, 4, dressed as Stitch from the Disney movie. | Brian Christensen, a Children’s Hospital volunteer, finds a fellow clown friend in Caylin Padilla, 7. |
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Radiation medicine party brings lots of cheer
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| Alea and Gary Culpepper helped carve a pumpkin for the kids while Mr. Culpepper was waiting for his treatment session at the Proton Treatment Center. |
Although it had been a heavy week, lightness was in the air and a warm
glow shone from the department of radiation medicine and the pediatric
oncology/hematology unit on Friday, October 31. Staff and patients combined
to bring a bit of joy to each other even as fires still burned in San
Bernardino.
Many factors combined to create an aura of friendship and encouragement: a caravan
of little red wagons streamed steadily between the radiation medicine conference
room on A-level and unit 4800; crafts, pizza, pumpkin carving, pictures, and
spider web cupcakes made the radiation medicine clinic extra busy and jovial
as staff greeted patients who were unable to come in earlier because of the fires
and uncertainty; nurses from unit 4800 and children being treated with radiation
invited others who were able to make the trip to the conference room; and a pumpkin
made its way back to Dina Rincon, RN, nurse manager of pediatric oncology.
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| Gerry Troy, MSW, social worker for the radiation medicine department, greets Kelly Torres, almost 12, a former radiation patient who finished her treatments in June. |
Gerry Troy, MSW, radiation medicine social worker, hosted the event
with help from Patti Lee. It all added up to a sense of community: former
patients encouraged those who were in the hospital; some of the adults
waiting for treatment helped the children into the conference room; a
patient and his wife donated pumpkins and helped to decorate; Jerry D.
Slater, MD, professor/chair, radiation medicine, SM, posed for pictures
with a patient.
The day reflected a central tenet of the department of radiation medicine and
pediatric oncology staff: that healing is more than technology and clinical
or nursing skill; healing also is a process of caring, something that all of
us, patients and caregivers alike, can share. On this day, that sharing, combined
with the courage of child and adult patients alike, brought everybody a bit
of joy.
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