Cupids for Cancer and Children’s Hospital at Erlanger
The cancer center at Children’s Hospital has many fun things
to do while kids wait to get chemotherapy, blood products, and medicine. One of
those rooms is our family kitchen.
The family kitchen is a place where kids, siblings, parents
or anyone with the patient can go and have a snack. We have everything from
chips to popcorn to frozen foods to string cheese and jello. When kids are
getting treatment here, they could be here for over 8 hours sometimes. Some
kids will come once a week and some kids will come two, three, four or five
days a week to see us. When a parent has a sick child they rarely want to leave
their side and having the kitchen so close it is a convenient is a blessing.
Kids look forward to coming in and checking out what we have
to eat. Many children who are taking chemotherapy or steroids have changes in
their taste buds daily or weekly. One day a child may want something spicy,
like flaming hot cheetos. Another day, they may want icing covered animal
crackers. You just never know!
We are thankful to all the school who will be participating
in Cupids for Cancer!
Just remember. We need single serving items! For infection
control reasons, we can’t have large bags or boxes of food that kids hands
enter in and out of.
Thank you for helping out the kids in your community
fighting Childhood Cancer!
Ashley Zani
Child Life Specialist
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