It's like the greatest equalizer of race and culture   Peggy Dolan   The Kelly Anne Dolan Memorial F
Channel: Kelly Anne Dolan Memorial Fund
Date: 2020-09-24

Peggy Dolan - KADMF Founder
Anytime Kelly ran a fever or was acting sick, she 
was immediately hospitalized and put in an
isolation room.
You can't leave a 2-year-old in an isolation room
for weeks on end, so when Kelly was hospitalized,
I was hospitalized.  I would stay with her at
the hospital.
Live there at the hospital and thank God I had my 
mom who was such a great support.  She didn't 
work.  She was a homemaker and she took 
care of Krissy...
and I could rest assure that Krissy was being loved
and cared for and my husband would go to work,
you know, we had this printing and packaging
company and... 
he had a partner, so his time, he didn't have to worry
about losing a job because, you know, he was 
the boss.  And, and that's how we lived.  And it was
during that time... 
that I recognized when you're in a Children's Hospital,
it could be any Children's Hospital in the United States,
it really is a community within itself.  It becomes
your neighborhood... 
nd you begin to hear these stories of your neighbors
who become your friends and some of these parents
you would see repeatedly because they had 
children with all kinds of... 
of rare disorders and serious illnesses or disabilities
so they were back and forth to the hospital as 
much as you were... 
and you get drawn into their family and they get drawn
into your family and it's, it's like the greatest
equalizer of race and culture, socioeconomic
background...
cuz it really doesn't matter where you went to school,
what kind of house you live in, you know, what 
kind of car you drive, what neighborhood 
you're from.
You know, that's where you really see how much 
we're all the same.  And you, you begin to love 
these people and, and then you hear their stories...
and that's when we really began to see what was 
happening out there and finding out that so many 
parents were ending up losing their jobs because they
were good parents.  They were taking care of their kids.


The Kelly Anne Dolan Memorial Fund
Help & hope for families with seriously ill children, since 1976
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