Bob & Judy Kryter present Kiwanis-made dolls to Nursing Supervisor Debbie Womble and her nursing staff at Children’s Hospital, West Surgery Center, Knoxville.  The dolls serve several purposes.  The nurse or doctor can use them to demonstrate the procedure that the child must undergo.  Likewise, children facing imminent surgery can use the doll to express their feelings by drawing a face on the doll that indicates their emotions or can mark the place of the injury or the pain they feel.  Upon leaving the hospital, each child keeps his/her doll, thereby retaining a positive reminder of the hospital visit.  The project has been producing & delivering 40 dolls monthly on a continuing basis.

 
  "Madeline" -- soon to undergo surgery -- is handed her                          She's a little tentative at first...
  doll by an attending nurse. 

 
  ... but quickly 'gets into' the task of coloring her newfound               Here's where our Kiwanis-made dolls go!
  friend & confidant.

 
  "Madeline," shown with her parents & the attending nurse,         Knoxville Children's Hospital West Surgery Center
 begins to color her Kiwanis doll.                                                 on Westland Boulevard near Pellissippi Parkway. 

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