Fundraiser

Each year the Feeding Tube Awareness Foundation sets a Feeding Tube Awareness Week to bring awareness to why people have feeding tubes. One of the big misconceptions with feeding tubes is that they are just for end of life care, which is not true.

Each year to celebrate this awareness week we partner with a local organization that helps families with children with feeding tubes. In previous years we have done things like collect baby dolls and toiletries for rmh  and collect fun bandaids for the hospital.

We are SO excited to introduce to you the 2020 fundraiser!!!

This year we will be collecting two things for the child life department at the hospital.

1. We are collecting Feeding Friends. This is the tape that we use to hold the girl's oxygen on their face that has fun printed pictures on it. This tape is much kinder to skin then most tapes and the fun pictures makes it funner to have a medical device on your face. These can be used for a lot of medical devices. Currently there are only a couple of child life specialists who have some Feeding Friends so not all kids who want some can use them in the hospital. These can make a hospital stay more enjoyable. They are $19 for a roll of 100! Thats a big bang for your buck! They can ONLY be bought on one website.
https://www.kidshopechest.com/feeding-friends


2. Buzzy! Buzzy is used to help distract children during needle pokes. Jillian uses Buzzy every time she has a lab draw or needs an IV... or at least when one are available. Not every child life specialist has a Buzzy so for Jillian's last IV she was not able to use one. Buzzy is helpful enough for her that she self advocates for it. And Lydia loves to hold Buzzy on Jillian for pokes. It can also be used for other invasive and painful procedures. The child life team would love more Buzzys so that every child life specialist has one to use. Buzzy is able to be cleaned and reused over and over so one Buzzy helps a lot of children. The healthcare version of Buzzy is around $100. There are a few different places to buy a healthcare quality Buzzy:
https://buzzyhelps.com/products/buzzy%C2%AE-mini-healthcare?variant=7229702602795&fbclid=IwAR3TIEiqRL-MwATqinzOvSELyJ2UUpYJY52PfCovHYLbSnicOf56C1LIV8M 
and
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01JMBDGSU/ref=sspa_dk_detail_5?psc=1&pd_rd_i=B01JMBDGSU&pd_rd_w=7RadN&pf_rd_p=45a72588-80f7-4414-9851-786f6c16d42b&pd_rd_wg=BXtyP&pf_rd_r=HPFXBWBJRNQ9PSF73RYJ&pd_rd_r=6c5be75f-6261-45b0-8eee-29dbb44e3487&spLa=ZW5jcnlwdGVkUXVhbGlmaWVyPUExQkozUk40MjIzMlo3JmVuY3J5cHRlZElkPUEwOTUwMDAwMzgyWUIyU0lITjg5UiZlbmNyeXB0ZWRBZElkPUEwNTgxOTQzM0M4UENTSE1IRUlYMyZ3aWRnZXROYW1lPXNwX2RldGFpbCZhY3Rpb249Y2xpY2tSZWRpcmVjdCZkb05vdExvZ0NsaWNrPXRydWU%3D&fbclid=IwAR18s99VgeeDu-andFM9DRDXY43hBTrToNTad9h7VoKy0rNWtFnHS86J6fs


Both of these things are very important to our family on our medical journey and we want to make them more widely available at our hospital so that more families can be helped by them too. Thank you to everyone who joins with us for this because we alone can not make a big impact for a fundraiser like this, but together we can help a lot of kids... will you join us?

We are collecting these until February 14th

Lydia with a fish Feeding Friend