Sara Ward

Originally witten on August 8, 2007:

I felt very fortunate to spent time with the patients families at the TNT Picnic this past Saturday evening. I overheard that one little girl said she was looking forward to it all week. I met siblings of a little baby with leukemia. I am not sure if the baby is a boy or girl, but his or her siblings were so happy to see us and we sang Happy Birthday to Nathanial, who was turning Three yesterday - he was one very happy little boy!! These kids are in the hospital every day with their family and their time is not spent doing happy normal little kid things. I think it was great they had something fun to look forward to! Another little girl, Malika, loved the animal paper plates and little treats and she tried to share them with everyone! Another 13 year old boy, Donavan was there with his Dad. Donavan's 16 year old sister was in the hospital and his Mom was sleeping in her room. Ted, their father told me there were families who had it much much worse.

Other families, nurses and staff came in and out of the picnic. Everyone really appreciated the lovely picnic dinner set out for them - even the teenage girl who said something like "I couldnt eat all the fat in the frosted brownies" came back three times for more.....

I'll try not to go on and on like I am tempted to, but I just wanted to say that I felt so lucky that I was able to spend Saturday helping to get food together for this event. And I was so glad that I was able to be there at Georgetown and spend time with the families. They are special people and they are the reason that we get up so early and put in our mileage and raise our funds - to beat blood cancers!

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