"My child's overnight stay in paediatrics"

My child was recently admitted to pediatrics due to breathing difficulties. You can imagine this was a very scary time for both myself and my child. All staff within the pediatric ward in DGRI were absolutely fantastic. They immediately put my child and myself at ease. Everything they had to do to my child was explained first and they had fantastic ways of doing things to make it less scary.

One nurse in particular, when trying to get a nebuliser on my child mentioned the book Zog. This completely changed my child's experience of the nebulizer as they then willingly put and kept it on pretending they were Zog and were blowing fire at me. This was likely nothing new for the nurse to do or say however it completely changed my child's experience of something which could have been terrifying. I cannot praise and thank all staff enough.