MY FRIENDS

I didn't take any pictures from her stay at Children's Hospital, mostly because I couldn't bare to see those images again.  Let me paint one picture for you, that will forever be en grained in my head.

Alex wanted to get out of the room and "...go find some kids" the first night we were there.  We walked up and down the halls, wheeling her IV pole with us.  She saw a little girl in a room down the hall, and she said, "Mama, I want to make a friend."

We poked our heads in, and this little girl was soooo happy to see us!  She was 4 years old, and she has Spinabifida.  She told Alex all about her walker, and the tubes in her tummy, and why she has braces on her legs.  And she wanted to be Alex's friend too.  Then she asked about Alex's IV.

It was super cute to see these two interact.

Then we met 4 year old Erik.  Alex said, "That boy has an IV in his hand too!"  He was sitting in a wagon while his dad was pulling him around the halls.  Erik was in the Hospital to try and control his diabetic seizures.  Erik started singing "Happy Birthday", cuz he loves that song, then Alex sang "Puff the Magic Dragon".  Then they hugged.

She still talks about her friends from the "HOP-SITAL".