TV found to be a painkiller for children
Sometimes the numbing effect of TV can be helpful. Especially if you’re a kid being stuck with a needle at the hospital. Researchers confirmed the distracting power of television _ something parents have long known _ when they found that children watching cartoons suffered less pain from a hypodermic needle than kids not watching TV.
Here is a photo of my son in the hospital during his year of major chemotherapy. That’s his sister Micah with him. He’s in the bed at City of Hope, watching TV and playing with her ear. He had a needle stuck in his chest as his IV.
posted Aug 18, 2006, 4:57pm by Rodolpho Carrasco
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