If when we adults face any kind of intervention we have our fears, we can imagine how the children will spend it, which often do not understand what happens to them. "I'm going to have a transplant" is a story for children who are going to have a transplant of hematopoietic progenitors (peripheral blood, umbilical cord or marrow).
It is a mini guide-story for children between three and ten years and it has been presented a few days ago by the Onco-Hematology Service team of the Niño Jesús Hospital, which has devised and written it.
What it is, how it is done and what a transplant is for are some of the questions to which answers are given, in an appropriate way to those children who are going to undergo such an intervention.
In this sense, illustrations have been essential in order to translate the most technical concepts into children's language, and to facilitate their understanding of what the transplant means and entails.
He hematopoietic progenitor transplantation It is one of the treatments that some pediatric patients undergo oncological pathologies undergo. They are transplants that are used to treat diseases that directly affect blood cells (leukemia, lymphoma, medullary aplasia, immunodeficiencies ...).
According to the staff responsible for the Onco-hematology Unit, more and more transplants of this type are being done and, since it is a complex and quite hard procedure for the child, which will be at least three weeks in, this guide intends to accompany you, inform you and help you live with less fear and more security all phases.
This initiative has been possible thanks to the collaboration of Soledad Maestre Martín-Ventas, the teacher who has given away the drawings that illustrate this story inspired by the hospitalization rooms, rooms, and other facilities of the Niño Jesús Hospital.
Definitely, "I'm going to have a transplant" is a therapeutic story that will help young children They are going to be subjected to this type of intervention, a very good idea to make this hard drink a little friendlier and make them smile.
