Talking about Childhood Diseases With Shannon Brush and Dr. Janna Journeycake
It’s time to focus on the Children.
“October is Children’s Health Month and a great reminder for parents to keep an eye on their children’s overall health – from making sure they’re recovering normally from colds and illnesses, to ensuring cuts and bruises are healing properly, to discussing existing ailments during doctor check-ups.”
Did you know that your child could be sitting beside you and you may not even realize he/she has a chronic disease that’s just been undiagnosed? Maybe you have had a small idea or something bugging/nagging at you about your child, if this is the case take him/her in and get them seen immediately. That’s what Shannon B, author of “My First Factors” learned.
Shannon is the mother to three boys, one of which has a chronic disease…hemophilia. Hemophilia is a chronic bleeding disorder but it wasn’t diagnosed at birth. Actually Shannon was the one that realized her little baby had something wrong since bringing him home. But one day when daddy clipped his fingernails and got one of them a bit too close (as many of us have) he continued to bleed a lot throughout the day. That’s when she realized it. So moms and dads, sometimes we must be the detective when it comes to discovering something is wrong with our child. But always follow up your discovery with a doctor to get the proper diagnosis.
Below you will find the interview I did with Shannon and Dr. Journeycake, a pedriatic hemotologist at a Children’s medical center and helps take care of kids with blood or cancer disorders. For those that don’t know Shannon’s book, “My First Factor Words” is a board book for your little guy/girl with pictures that explain what things are such as needles, bandaids, etc to help them understand what they’ll be seeing at their appointments.
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