Heart of a Champion

What an amazing afternoon. At the last LCK (Levine Cardiac Kids meeting) there was an announcement that Heart of a Champion was looking for volunteers. This is a day where upcoming 10th, 11th and 12 grade athletes in charlotte can sign up and get free screenings. They get an echo of there heart the whole nine yards.

Can you imagine what it takes to screen over 1800 students in less that eight hours. The amount of doctores, nurses, techs and just plain ol people like me. It was really fun. I was supposed to be working the volunteer check in table. However when I got there they needed more help at the athlete check in tables. Think about this.....about every 45 minutes there were 300 students walking through the doors. This day was planned down to a science

Technically I was not supposed to have any contact with the patients because I was not a Carolina Healthcare Systems employee. However when I walked in and told them I do not have a hospital ID I was just a volunteer. The lady knew it and sent me out there anyway. It was fun by the end of the afternoon we were guessing what sport the student played when they walked in the door and the afternoon went by really fast.

I still believe there is a reason all of this happened to us with Madelynn. That there is a road I still need to travel in my life that I would have never fathomed had it not been for Madelynn. I still think it has something to do with the hospital. However, needles and blood not really my thing. I thought about just finding out about volunteering and the hospital. Hopefully the light will come on as to what this journey entails because it is really tugging on me right now.

It still gives me chills to drive down the main enterance of the hospital because the first thing you see os the Levine's Children's Hospital all lit up. Someday I hope it becomes a comfort knowing they saved her life.

TTFN