1. Anesthesia prevents pain during surgery.
2. You are not having surgery because you were bad, surgery is not a punishment.
3. If there is pain after surgery, medication is available to make it better, so you have to tell your parent, doctor or nurse when you hurt.
4. Your surgery is not the same as ____’s (grandma, brother, friend, person on TV) surgery.
5. Your ____ may hurt more (or less) after surgery.
6. After surgery your _____(body part) will have a (cast, bandage, IV, stitches)
7. We will see you when you (wake up, leave the OR, surgery ends, you are back in your hospital room)
8. The doctors and nurses will be dressed in hats and masks and some even wear funny glasses to see better during surgery.
9. Surgery in real life is different from surgery on TV.
10. You will get special medicine to make you sleep during surgery, the medicine makes sure you don’t wake up before the surgery is over.
11. You will wake up after the surgery when the doctor is completely finished.
