Product Overview
My Throat Hurts!
Written by Maryann Lukowich
Illustrated by Simone Sarsfield
My Throat Hurts! is a children’s book about what to expect when a child has a sore throat and needs to go to the doctor’s office to be checked for strep throat. Author Maryann Lukowich is a nurse practitioner and sees multiple children and adults for strep throat each year. She wrote My Throat Hurts! so children will not be afraid to go to the doctor by teaching the process of a doctor’s visit, from getting the vital signs checked to testing for strep throat, and explaining the steps to recovery, such as treating with an antibiotic, how to prevent the spread of the disease, and when a person is no longer contagious and can safely return to their activities.
About the Author
Maryann Lukowich is a family nurse practitioner. She currently has about two thousand patients from newborn babies to the elderly. She has been working as a NP in underserved areas for the past twelve years but has been a nurse for thirty-two years. She has worked in a variety of settings over this time: labor/delivery and the medical/surgical units in a hospital, caring for the elderly in a nursing home, being a school nurse, and working in various doctors’ offices. Lukowich is happily married and is a mother of two grown children and has a two-year-old grandson named Finley.
(2021, eBook)
