My 1st volenteer at Chidrens Hospital

Thursday I went to Children’s Hospital, thinking that all I was going to do was get shots to make sure I was not in danger for the ill kids at Children’s and go to an orientation there. But it turned out that I also got asked by Kathy the director of Volunteer’s at Children’s Hospital to start Volunteering right away, that day. So I said sure why not, I was nervous because I didn’t know really what to do or expect, but Kathy let me shadow this girl Lori who was 16 and who worked there for about a year. The first thing I did to start my day was to babysit for the kids who need somewhere to stay for a little while there parents go take of there sick kids or kids. So I walked in into the play center where I would take care of the kids, when I got there Lori, the person I was supposed to shadow was not there yet, but there was no kids there yet, but until this mom said can you take my baby for about 45 minutes, and I had to say yes even though I was nervous because I never really held a baby or taken care of one, but I was about to find out? So the lady handed me Alex, who was about 9 months old into my arms, then she left. Alex was a very calm baby; I had no problems until he had an accident, so I had to change a diaper, I was very nervous but I got the job done. About 10 minutes before the mom came back to get Alex, Lori showed up, my shadow. After the baby left, we went to deliver mail, flowers, presents to the sick kids up in there rooms. The first room was room 704 and a kid named mike. I didn’t know what to expect, like how to handle it, seeing a kid that is in pain and might be dying. So Lori taught me how to be very gentle and nice to the kids and how to always wash your hands before you walk into the patient’s room. So I knocked on mike’s door very gently and came in and said we some stuff for you which was flowers, lot’s of mail, and Rocky the Denver Nuggets Mascot was there so he gave me headbands and mini basketballs to give to the kids I was giving the stuff to. When I gave the kids there stuff they act like they just won the lottery or something like that. Those kids I visited, and I visited about 15 of them, were grateful and the nicest kids I have ever seen in my life. After I visited the 15 kids, it was time for lunch, then after that I had something special coming up, the band The Fray was coming to sign autographs for the children and teens at the hospital, and my job was to help pass cd’s to the kids there while sitting right next to them, it was an experience I will never forget. The kid’s faces were priceless, so emotional and happy. My last thing I was to do before I left was to walk Rod Smith the former Broncos Wide receiver to this one room so he can sign autographs. So that was my amazing day with a capital A! It was fun for me, emotional, tiring, but all worth it, and the good part is I’m not even close to be done, I have a lot more work to do there!