Hope is in the Air!

I received an email last night letting me know that Hope Airlines - a WestJet Cares for Kids partner charity is celebrating 10 years of flying Canadians to their medical appointments. I believe I read somewhere that they have donated over 65,000 flights over the past 10 years.  That's a lot of free salty snacks! [...]

Everything is Awesome!

Today was  a great day.  I worked hard in school today, and my teacher gave me TWO new Hot Wheels cars!  Mom said I was getting spoiled, but I told her that wasn't it.  My teacher was just so PROUD she had to buy me some cars.  After lunch it was MOVIE DAY...and guess what....I [...]

Please don’t steal my baby…

I know that I sometimes have a tendency for paranoia, but I have always thought that social workers were put on this planet to steal people's babies. Any time they walk by me in a hospital, I hold Benjamin a bit tighter.  The last time we were admitted for a while, we had quite the [...]

Back to routine…

Ben had a good weekend visiting with his dad and his sister.  It is these little distractions that help make time pass a bit more quickly around here.  Our weekdays actually go by fairly quickly, but our weekends seem endless.  However, I was able to recharge a bit this weekend and spend some time with [...]

The Gift of School

School in the hospital has three major benefits: it gives the patients a regular routine which helps to pass the days; it helps distract from the aches and pains of everyday hospital life, and it provides a critical and necessary opportunity to help the students keep up with their studies back home.  It also pulls [...]

I like to move it move it…

They made me a walker here.  It's pretty big, but I can push it all by myself.  Everybody laughs and says they can't believe how good I am at walking.  That's funny because I used to always walk.  Sometimes I get stuck in doors or go into walls, but someone always helps me unstick.  They [...]

Our Superheroes wear Fezzes

Ya, I know you think I misspelled that, but I didn't!  The plural of fez (a flat topped hat) is fezzes or fezes.  I thought fezes looked pretty similar to feces, so I opted for the first spelling and "Our Superheroes Wear Feces" is a way different story than I intend to tell at this [...]