Dr. Jami Gross-Toalson

Pediatric Psychologist specializing in cardiology and organ transplant/failure. Wife and mother. All opinions are my own.

[Dr. Jami Gross-Toalson @jamihawkk]

#chdawareness #heartworks #pedscards
#caregiverwellbeing

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Once a year, we spend a Saturday supporting our incredible heart parents at our Heart Center Parent Symposium. This year, they toured our transport department, learned about the use of VR to care for little hearts, and how to support heart siblings.

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Spending this beautiful Saturday with our Heart Center Well Being team, Litta, and amazing heart parents at our annual HC parent symposium. And the views from our @ChildrensMercy helipad can’t be beat!

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First hardware for this crew!

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Girls in this generation have it figured out. They compliment and build each other up in ways I’ve never seen. Our future is bright when these young women take over #girlpower #fixthecrown

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Hey @CardiacNeuro friends! We have an open peds psych position at Children’s Mercy KC…message me if you want to meet up in Denver to learn more!

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@melissacousino

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I have loved the learning and ideas from #ISHLT2025, but catching up with colleagues and friends makes it even better.

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@melissacousino Yay!

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For my #hearttransplant psychology crew…who else is going to @ISHLT? @TransplantPsych

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Krosby is super excited about his new baseball team and loves being a “Canes kid”!
Please support Canes Great Plains by giving to the team fundraiser presented by @eTeamSponsor! 👉 https://t.co/H5oFtiEzcS

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We love our pups! Glad they are getting some shout outs!

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In case you were wondering about the beautiful dog in the picture with Taylor Swift, here you go!

Her name is Jellybean and she's a graduate of Canine Assistants, a school that raises and educates dogs for service or for facilities.

I've had the pleasure of interviewing Jellybean’s mom, and she said that facility dogs work in hospitals, school settings, nursing homes, dentist offices, anywhere that needs them. The dogs’ handlers are often child life specialists working together with the dogs to help patients achieve medical goals.

Sometimes the dogs help kids walk after surgery, help with medication compliance, or help with motivation to participate in therapy. Things in the hospital can be scary, especially for kids. The dogs help to soften the environment and make the work feel more like play while simultaneously providing comfort and motivation to complete tasks that otherwise could be very difficult.

For example, walking after surgery can be scary and painful. Often kids don't want to do it. But somehow when the dogs are there, the kids are motivated in a different way. It's like the dogs have a skillset humans don't possess.

Jellybean lives with her mom who is her primary handler and her mom is also a child life specialist. Jellybean has 2 additional handlers that are child life specialist as well.

Each of Jellybeans' handlers are proud of the work she does everyday. They say she is truly the best medicine!

The card tricks in the videos are just fun labeling tricks that keep Jellybeans' brain engaged while entertaining parents and staff in the process.

Along with jellybean, in the photos are additional graduates of Canine Assistants - Hunter, Litta, Dusty, and Patsy!

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@taylorswift13

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I’m not a swiftie. I like the music & respect Taylor as a person. However, today that changed. This human, who used her time off to bring such joy to our patients (and us), did so with grace & gratitude. @ChildrensMercy is lucky that she walked through our doors. Thanks Tay!

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@TylerAllisonMD @ChildrensMercy 🤣🤣

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I’m in the phase of life in which I hear a song and think “that would be a cool walk up song”, in case you wonder what I do with my weekends. #baseballmom #softballmom

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@o_eisenhauer @NBCSports Congrats Olivia!!!

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Yesterday, I had the honor of speaking at the Project Adam conference about our efforts to support survivors, families, and bystanders following sudden cardiac arrest with my friend and colleague. Hearing survivor stories is always so powerful, and this day was no different.

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Some of the strongest humans I know are living with gifts they never wanted to need.

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Jack was a toddler with failing kidneys. Lanayah was a 13-yr-old 🏀 player with dilated cardiomyopathy. Thanks to generous donors, we were able to help them with #OrganTransplants and now they are both thriving! We ♥️ our courageous #Transplant patients!

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Love this group!