Surgery dolls help children deal with anxieties

By: Joan Hershberger - El Dorado News-Times

Anyone can help sew flat dolls for the Arkansas Children’s Hospital. Those who cannot sew can always stuff the dolls or cut them out like paper dolls. The Union County Sewing Club cuts, sews, clips and stuffs the dolls on the third Tuesday of each month. Working on the dolls are, from th...

Surgery can be frightening to adults. For children, entering the strange new world of the big hospital multiples that anxiety. Such big rooms, so many new people and everyone coming into the room pokes and prods the child’s body. To counter that anxiety and, hopefully, help the ...

Published: 03/20/2013