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her young son. He had suffered a seizure due laugh, ‘I would know those eyes anywhere!’ ”
to a high fever. Mother and daughter rushed
the child to the emergency room. While The grandson, who is college-aged now,
in the ER, the feverish child, listless and had no lasting effects from the seizure, but
confused and still experiencing after effects he still remembers the bear. He had refused
of the seizure, was noticed by a member of to part with it, even though a family member
the Glade Hill rescue squad, who had brought teasingly suggested that he give it to his
in another patient. As she passed, the EMT sister, since it was pink.
patted the child’s hand and said, “I think I
have something you might like.” She left and Also in high demand are the guild’s lap
returned with a stuffed bear. It was the only quilts, many of which go to hospice and
one that she had left on her ambulance, she remain with the family after their loved
explained as she handed it to the boy. one has passed. They also go to local family
shelters for battered women and children.
“It was one my friend, the boy’s Betty had occasion to talk with one family
grandmother, and I had made,” Betty said. who had received a lap quilt through hospice.
“She told me later that when she saw the bear “My mother-in-law used to sit under that
she recognized it immediately, adding with a quilt and read,” the woman said, as tears
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