Every day I travel to two hospitals to visit my Mom and George. My heart aches to see them in any kind of pain, Mom had taken a major stroke and George went into septic shock which is very dangerous. I cannot show that I am worried or hurting for them. I enter their rooms with a smile on my face and a big Hello. They smile back at me through their pain. So in my heart I believe I have brought them a little happiness for a short while. Then it is time to leave the room so the nurses and doctors can see them. So off to the waiting room I go. Soon the waiting room is filled with other folks just like me. They feel the same way as I do, about their loved ones, so we share stories and our feelings with each other. I think to myself "What can I do to make the waiting room a little easier for all these people?" Well I must tell them something funny that happened to me like the time my friend and I were coming out of a dance hall on a very cold snowy night. I was walking very fast to get to the car, I thought my friend was right beside me, so I grabbed what I thought was his hand, I squeezed it so tenderly and looked up " It wasn't my friend, it was a complete stranger, my friend was walking behind and laughing like crazy and now everyone in the waiting room was laughing too. Now I am not satified I want to do more for others, and while Mom was on the rehab floor they had bingo games for the seniors and my brother started bringing Mom to the games, and i went when I could. Well you should have seen the seniors playing bingo, when they had bingo they choose from a table full of stuffed toys and their eyes would light up ,some would say I will give the blue one to my grandson, or the little brown teddy bear I want to give to a special little girl. And they are always running out of stuffed toys and if they do, they have to stop the bingo. So I started bringing in some stuffed toys from the dollar store, then my brother Andy did the same and I cannot express the feeling I got when they choose the toy I brought it. And would you believe some of the senior patients are there an hour before the game begins? So I went to the hospital where George is and asked if they also had bingo games, yes they told me we have two floors that play bingo one is for extended care seniors. So I talked with my brother and the therapist about starting a stuffed toy drive for the bingos and if it came that they would have too many stuffed toys they could pass them to some children . They thought it was a great idea. So I decided to start a Stuffed Toy Drive in honor of my friend George and Mom (Flossie) so I created a page of Facebook called George and Flossie's Stuffed Toy Drive I have added a few photos and a bit about what I am doing. So if you are on Facebook go to the search bar and type in George And Flossie's Stuffed Toy Drive and like the page . You can mail your stuffed toys (small one or medium ones) to
A. Cormier
1700 Mountain Rd. apt 206
Moncton NB
Canada E1G1A6
If this address changes I shall blog the new address, or you can drop off the stuffed toys at the both Moncton Hospitals
The Moncton City Hospital
Fifth Floor rehab nursing station say it is for the George and Flossie Stuffed Toy Drive for the bingos
and
George Dumont Hospital
University Ave
Volunteer Dept unit 225
Second floor (old part of hospital)]
Tell them its for the George and Flossie Stuffed Toy Drive.
So please show a little love, if you can make just one person happy then that person may just make someone else happy too. I hope you will join in this Stuffed Toy Drive, to me it means a lot because I know Mom (Flossie) and George approves of me naming the toy drive in their honor.
Chow for now
Allicor
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