They just didn't understand, and thought that I had just broken my arm, and that it was all a great big joke on them. They even thought they had been taken advantage of when our teacher had them send me cards in the hospital. Had my parents known that I was taking everything in and making my own sense of the strange words they were using, I am certain their vocabulary would have been much different. Don't assume children are sleeping when their eyes are closed. If your conversations are private, take them far away from your children.
Children hear everything.
Surgery, operation, testing, etc. If children aren't told, they invent answers, and those answers are scary. Thanks for reading about my childhood.