12-year-old Nathan Yuill donates Easter baskets to Providence Alaska Children’s Hospital (Courtesy of hospital via FB)
Nathan Yuill was diagnosed as a child with stage-4 non-Hodgkin lymphoma, but the good news is that he’s two treatment courses away from what is anticipated to be a bell-ringing remission announcement.
But before his time in Providence Children’s Hospital came to an end, 12-year-old Yuill raised $2,000 to give almost every child there a colorful, present-filled Easter basket.
Clinical Nurse Manager of Pediatric at Providence, Nicki Thurwanger said that the carts they normally use to transport meals and other things from room to room were overflowing with the baskets—all donated and put together by kind, nearby residents.
“When the kiddos are here, every day becomes challenging and hard, and you look for the little things that make you be a kid,” Thurwanger told Alaska News Source.
“And so I think that’s what things like this give back is, yes, you’re in the hospital, but you’re a kid, and you get to still be a kid when you’re here.”
Nathan’s mother, Dena Yuill, said she was shocked when donations for the project, dreamt up by her son, topped $2,000 in just 24 hours.
“He’s amazing. I wish I had half the strength he does,” she said.
124 baskets in total were distributed in time for Good Friday in Providence and the nearby Alaska Native Medical Center.
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Children certainly get to have more fun for Easter than their parents, and thanks to Yuill, his fellow patients get an opportunity during a difficult time to just be a kid again.
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