Wednesday, January 5, 2011

January's project

Well, so far January hasn't gotten off to the greatest start!  Zoe has had a virus for the last several days, and as many of you know, Zoe has asthma, and pretty much all illness goes straight to her lungs!  So, we have been holed up in the house since Sunday giving Zoe mucinex, breating treatments, and trying to beat this thing!  Finally realized this wansn't going to go away on its own, so I took her to the pediatrician's office today to see the NP.  She thinks it is just a virus, and she added an oral steroid on top of her breathing treatments, so hopefully that will kick it!
So I have been at home on the Internet researching something fun and easy for our first project.  I want everything we do to be something Zoe can understand and partcipate in (Reese, at 7 months, is just going to have to be out of the loop!)  As a nurse, I decided to start on some childrens hospital websites and see if they could use any toy and book donations.  The same day I was doing this I recieved a letter in the mail from the Scottish Rite Hospital.  My parents had made a holiday donation in our name (Thanks Mom and Dad!), and that is how I found our first project!  The Scottish Rite Hospital of course!  For anyone familiar with that hospital, the place is AMAZING!  It is for children with orthopedic disabilities, and it is 100% free for patients. 
I called and talked to a child life specialist there, and she said their greatest need is donations for the teenagers who often get overlooked.  Here is a link of things they need:

http://www.tsrhc.org/toys-books-and-games.htm

I have already talked to Zoe about it and she keeps saying, "do we have to wrap presents and take them to kids in the hopspital."  haha.  Yes "hop-spital."  I keep telling her we don't have to wrap them, and I think she is a little dissapointed in that! So as soon as she is fever free and feeling better, we are going to go find some fun teenager things to take up to the Scottish Rite!  Hopefully it will brighten someone's day:)  If anyone has any ideas for other projects, or things to take up to the Scottish Rite let me know!  Of course once we get our goodies, and take them up to the hosptial I will let everyone know how it goes.

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