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We get them here on the American tv stations. If you haven't seen them, they show kids with various disabilities, obviously congenital, who show what these hospitals are doing for them and how donations from the pubic can help them. The overall impression I get is that without access to these hospitals, kids who are born with disabilities just don't get the medical help they need to flourish. Is this close to being true?
We get them here on the American tv stations. If you haven't seen them, they show kids with various disabilities, obviously congenital, who show what these hospitals are doing for them and how donations from the pubic can help them. The overall impression I get is that without access to these hospitals, kids who are born with disabilities just don't get the medical help they need to flourish. Is this close to being true?
What are your thoughts on the thread headline ? Specifically the "bloody depressing".
We get them here on the American tv stations. If you haven't seen them, they show kids with various disabilities, obviously congenital, who show what these hospitals are doing for them and how donations from the pubic can help them. The overall impression I get is that without access to these hospitals, kids who are born with disabilities just don't get the medical help they need to flourish. Is this close to being true?
The rather singular example of similar originating in Canada would be the War Amps commercial for donations to provide very specialized rehabilitation and artificial limbs for child amputees who are otherwise healthy . That is a very specific targeted group though in comparison to ALL suffering children being reliant upon donations to St Judes etc.,
Perhaps you should look at these commercials as celebrating the good work the Shriners are able to do for these children rather than as a depressing thing?
It's a very hard thing for many people to digest, that children are born with certain issues. Shriners do what they can to help and are more than happy to do it.
I'm a Shriner and the most humbling experience of my life was having a child come up to me at the Greenville hospital and put his hand out to shake mine and thank me. I'd never seen the kid before, but because I had my fez (the funny hat, for those who don't know the name of it) on my head, he felt it was necessary to offer his thanks. That hit me in a spot deep down and I've never forgot the feeling.
Edit: I'd encourage any of you who are curious to tour a Shriner's hospital. I think you would walk away with a different perspective on life.
We get them here on the American tv stations. If you haven't seen them, they show kids with various disabilities, obviously congenital, who show what these hospitals are doing for them and how donations from the pubic can help them. The overall impression I get is that without access to these hospitals, kids who are born with disabilities just don't get the medical help they need to flourish. Is this close to being true?
Why would you think that without Shriners hospitals "kids who are born with disabilities just don't get the medical help they need to flourish"? That is one set of conditions Shriners Hospitals treat but those hospitals are not the sole source of care for children with them.
The poster just outlined that very aspect of the thread title in the O/P.
That's your opinion, fine. I don't share it.
Its shocking when first seen. I get that. I don't get the depressing part.
I see beautiful faces doing things most take for granted.
I feel thankful for people and places like Shriners.
It doesn't depress me and if it does others I want to understand why.
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