A Miami charity is helping children with cancer by sending them denim jackets and tote bags adorned with decorative patches.
In Texas visit, second gentleman Douglas Emhoff raises more than $1 millionPOLL: City council pay raises, reversing city manager pay cap unpopular with San Antonio votersGet ready to travel this fall with these Insider DealsOliver Burkhardt, 13, stands in front of trays of patches inside the offices of the Oliver Patch Project, Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2024, in Miami. – When Oliver Burkhardt underwent leukemia treatment at age 9, he'd enter the hospital wearing his patch-covered denim jacket.
On a recent afternoon at the charity’s office west of Miami, a dozen boxes containing a jacket or tote awaited pickup, heading to homes in such cities as Corpus Christi, Texas; Eagle Mountain, Utah; and Murietta, California. Children with cancer from all 50 states have joined. “Everything kind of shifts all your attention to being on the child who’s sick,” said their mom, the chief financial officer at her family's interior design firm.
“I was like, ‘Wow, this is all for me?' I was like genuinely super surprised,” Oliver said. “They were all different colors and they all had nice notes, like ‘Hope you feel better.’” His parents sewed some onto the family's jackets while sitting in his hospital room. “If patients start to become depressed or negative about the way things are going, they also start to be less cooperative,” Fader said. “We can give them medications. We can administer IV fluids, we can give them chemotherapy, but we can’t make them eat. We can’t make them have good nutrition. We can’t make them comply with all their oral medications when they’re home. Those are things where they have to be willing and participating.
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