Exciting News! Boston's Team in Training has picked Justin to be our team's Honored Hero. Justin now has over 20 people who will be running half and full marathons this summer in Providence and San Diego in his honor!!
This past Sunday, we organized our first team visit to Justin. We all brought snacks and goodies (everything from fresh-baked chocolate chip cookies to gummy bears and oreos, I wish I took a photo of the overstuffed bag of treats!). One of our team members, Amanda, brought Catchphrase (so fun!) and we played for over an hour, really getting into the spirit and causing quite a ruckus on the normally quiet oncology floor. :) Justin is so polite and serious, getting some smiles out of him was priceless!!
We had a wonderful time and hope to make this a weekly Sunday occurence while Justin is in the hospital.
I'm also on my way to visit him in a couple hours to play some card games. One of Justin's amazing nurses, Lynne, has been making him homemade food and bringing it in. Justin told me that today she's bringing tacos, maybe I'll get to try one!
As always, if you'd like to leave a message for Justin, just click "comments" at the bottom of this post!
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Love,
Lina
HI Justin! You are an amazing inspiration to all of us. If the world had 1% of your strength and resilience and character, the world would be a MUCH BETTER PLACE! Wishing you love, health, peace, joy & happiness. You are in my prayers!!! xoxo, Andrea from Hoboken, NJ
ReplyDeleteThank you for all the support and visits. They were fun and hope to see you all again, just not me as me being admitted. :)
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