This is a project I am starting to honor my sweet son Gage, who passed away in July of 2009. We spent a short while in the PICU, both here at Huntsville Hospital and at Vanderbilt Children's Hospital where he had a bone marrow trasplant. While I was there, it occured to me that so many parents are caught off guard and unprepared to be in the PICU. My hope is to create parent bags that have supplies to help them through the first few days away from home. Would you please take just a moment to help me?

Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Waiting

The only holdup at this point is waiting for the PICU to accept our idea. Hopefully I will hear back today or tomorrow. Once we get approval, how do you think I should gather the donations? Should I set up a paypal account? I HATE to ask people for money, but some people do not live close enough for me to pick up the items. Speaking of items...these bags will only take about 5 dollars to make. Maybe less. If you go to Dollar Tree you can get a 4 pack of tissues for 1 dollar. You can get a 5 or 10 pack of pens for a dollar. The highest price items will be the toothbrush and toothpaste...but if we get the kind either at Dollar Tree or Target, you can get BOTH for 1 dollar if you go to the travel/sample section! The hardest thing to find for cheap is the bags. I would like to put them in little gift bags. I went to Hobby Lobby and they had 12 for 4.99. Not bad!!! I have stickers made up that say Gifts from Gage. Right now, I have enough to make 8 or 9 bags. It's a start...but I would really like for this to be ongoing. I would love to take several a month and have the PICU keep them for when patients are admitted. Thank you all SO much for wanting to help. This means a lot!
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  1. TiffanyJune 21, 2011 at 7:55 AM

    i definitely think you should add a donate button so at least people have an option. i think some things may be able to be donated. i thought about asking my dentist when i got in july if she wouldn't mind donating some toothbrushes. not sure how close you are with your dentist, or if they even give out toothbrushes but they may be able to give you some too.

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