Surgery Plushie Get Well Gifts

Can I bring my stuffed animal to surgery? Yes you can! The comfort of plush toys can be beneficial to a patient of any age. For the kids, stuffed animals can alleviate stress, make them feel more in control of their bodies, and can turn their struggle into a snuggle. Not only is it ok to bring a stuffed plushie to the hospital, but stuffed animals can be therapeutic to the patient, offer comfort and soothe anxiety.

Most hospitals will allow a personal item into the operating room for comfort. While mom or dad have to sit in the waiting room, a child's favorite toy or familiar object can go into surgery with the patient. Therapy stuffed animals are great for doctor visits, dentists visits and can help lighten a childhood therapy appointment.

What do you give someone after gallbladder surgery? We think a gallbladder plush is a funny gift, but we are biased, of course. Can you say cholecystectomy three times fast? Did you know there a half million gallbladders removed every year in America? It's true. A gallbladder pillow, gallbladder keychain or gallbladder lapel pin is all you need to promote recovery and ease pain after your evil gallbladder is removed.

If your appendix has to be removed, what better gift than an appendix plushie to hug during recovery? Best appendectomy recovery gift ever! Appendectomy is way better than your appendix stabbing you with pain and then exploding inside your body.

Also tonsil stuffed animals make that tonsil removal less scary for kids. Hopefully their adenoids aren't as swollen as our tonsil pillow. Doctors and nurses will love the tonsil pillow, too! A tonsil pin makes a cute addition to any medical white coat or scrubs.

A splenectomy is more fun with spleen gifts, and a spleen pillow will bring on the comfort for your care package. It makes a great incision pillow after surgery. What do you get someone after spleen surgery? A spleen pillow, that's what! So cuddly, so cute and you can rest your incision on it. Maybe wrap it in plastic first.

Another great gift idea for your hysterectomy care package is a uterus plushie! So cute and so cozy, and nowhere near as much trouble as the real thing. Good riddance, old friend!

Fill your surgery and recovery gift basket with smiling organ plushies and watch the joy spread. Don't forget gifts for your surgical team, your doctor, nurse or surgeon will love a cute organ pin to remember taking your body parts out and putting them in the hazardous waste incinerator! Hospital staff love gifts, too!

Thyroidectomy isn't fun, but at least you can live without this gland. And your replacement thyroid will never give you trouble. This thyroid pillow will be by your side forever. It doesn't actually work, but that's what the Synthroid is for.

Knee and hip replacement surgeries take out your old joints and replace them with robot ones!

All your organs are important, but you can live without these: Spleen, Gallbladder, Appendix, Tonsils, parts of Liver (it can regrow) and reproductive organs. Also you don't need your eyeballs! You only need one kidney and one lung lobe. You can live without your stomach or parts of your colon. They can take your thyroid, but you need a drug to replace that gland's function.