Thank you to everyone who bought Blizzards on Miracle Treat Day. As a family who depends on London Health Sciences Centre for our child’s emergency and ongoing care, your support means everything. Seeing your ill child in the hospital is something that no parent should have to experience, it’s that much worse when you’re hours away from your home, other children and support systems. It becomes even more difficult when RMHC is full and you have to sometimes go without your personal basic needs being met, food costs add up quickly, as the hospital restaurants don’t take gift cards, and even with the medical rates hotels are still $200 a night.
This is where the Children’s Health Foundation comes in. Not only do they provided financial assistance, they work with the Paediatric Family Resource Centre in the hospital to provide emotional support to families. They check in on you, they listen, and they can empathize with everything that’s going on, as they themselves have been through hospital stays with their medically fragile children. On behalf of the families who make the 5,156 visits for ongoing care every year, the 296 visits to the emergency department every year, the families of the 98 children who require stays in the critical care unit each year, and the families of the 410 children who require care on B6 ward each year, thank you! Your support means everything to families like mine!
—Kait Lowe
Amherstburg
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