Diana M. Chiles, Pediatric Therapist, Le Bonheur Children Medical Center

Using Puppet Therapy to Prepare Children for Surgery

Anna shows Bernard the Sleepy Air

Jalon and his family learn about some of the sights, sounds, and smells

that Jalon will experience on the day that Jalon has his Operation.

"Nurse Tabita" comforts her Patient as he wakes up in the Recovery Room.

Carson and his Sister, Caymen, perform major heart surgery on their patient, Bernard.

Dr. William Smith, was Bernard's "First" Doctor, 1979. 

Click on the above picture to read about

the Pre-Operative Teaching Program

and how you can attend!

Diana Chiles began this program in 1979 while still working at the Mississippi Baptist Medical Center in Jackson, Mississippi.