Ben Lippen college students be part of most cancers survivor to assist Youngsters's Hospital | Columbia

When Zoe Tipping was combating for her life, the Little one Life program employees at Prisma Well being Youngsters’s Hospital in Columbia was there to assist her and her household via an extremely tough time. Zoe gained her battle, and now she and her household and schoolmates are serving to children win theirs.

Zoe, who went via chemotherapy on the age of three after a Wilm’s tumor was found on her kidney, is now 9 years previous and a 3rd grader at Ben Lippen Faculties. For her birthday, as they’ve every of the final 5 years, she and her household selected to have fun by giving items to the youngsters now being handled at Prisma Well being. Her classmates have helped up to now, however this 12 months, Staff Tipping grew greater than ever.

“That is the primary 12 months the entire college bought concerned,” stated Courtney Tipping, Zoe’s mother.

The Little one Life program helps youngsters and their households deal with well being care experiences, and when the Tippings requested what items would assist most, the employees recommended Play-Doh and Subway present playing cards. The dough is a favourite of children, because it has been for generations, however in a hospital setting can’t be reused because it could be elsewhere. With a 24-hour Subway within the youngsters’s hospital, the present playing cards present welcome snacks for folks staying with their children.

With Ben Lippen celebrating homecoming, the drive for dough and {dollars} (for present playing cards) turned a part of Spirit Week, and college students from elementary college via highschool stepped ahead to assist.

Friday night time, the outcomes had been revealed: 4,428 tubs of Play-Doh and greater than $2,000 in present playing cards for meals, and a reminder for everybody on the homecoming soccer sport of the rationale for the drive.

9 households, together with the Tippings, served as honorary captains for the sport, becoming a member of the soccer gamers at midfield for the coin toss. All included Miracle Youngsters, as previous or current sufferers on the youngsters’s hospital are recognized. All have skilled the sort of remedy Courtney Tipping describes.

“Youngsters’s Hospital and the physicians, nurses and caregivers imply a lot to us,” Tipping stated in a earlier interview for the hospital’s web site. “We had by no means felt the sort of household we had at Youngsters’s Hospital. They’ve actually turn into like household to us.”