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Visiting & IV's: A 5 Year Old Sibling's View

DIANE: What's the very first thing you have to do when you come to visit Jake? You go to the front desk (of the hospital). What do they give you? Mommy or Daddy fill out a piece of paper and they give you what?

MATTHEW: A sticker.

DIANE: A sticker. What does the sticker look like?

MATTHEW: It has a dinosaur on it.

DIANE: A green dinosaur, so that you can visit, right?

MATTHEW: Right.

DIANE: And then how do you find where Jake's room is? Who takes you to see him?

MATTHEW: Daddy.

DIANE: Daddy takes you? How do you find the room? Does Daddy know where it is?

MATTHEW: Uh huh.

INTERVIEWER: Did you see Jake when he was in the hospital bed?

MATTHEW: Uh huh.

DIANE: Do you remember what I was telling you about all the tubes he had? What were they? Can you tell Carol (interviewer) what he had in his arms?

MATTHEW: A tube, at the end of the tube there was a bottle.

DIANE: Why did he need to have that? It's called an IV. Why did he need that? To put what through it? Medicine, remember? Why did he need the medicine, do you know?

MATTHEW: To make his heart better.

 


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