Caring pediatric surgeon Dr. Robert Parry tries to make a happy memory instead of a scary one when his patients wake up from surgery.
for his patients. Parry, director of pediatric surgery at Akron Children's Hospital in Akron, Ohio, has gone viral recently for-- and each one is more adorable than the next. The story behind them is warming hearts across the country.
"It was easy to see that the patients and their parents really enjoyed them," Parry explains when talking about the inspiration behind making his own dressing art. "Over time, the whole thing kind of took on a life of its own," he admits, adding that instead of cutting out shapes like Stafford, he prefers to draw right on the bandages. Don't worry, though -- he's figured out how to add his drawings to the bandages while still keeping the wounds sterile.
"I had always enjoyed art -- both looking at it and creating it," he says."I never thought of art as a career, and never really studied it in school, but I always enjoyed creating it … drawing, watercolor, whatever." "Most dressings are done within five minutes while the patient is waking up," he says."If I’m slow, I just walk to the recovery room and put it on there."
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