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OLLIE'S STORY Our volunteers act as liaisons to specific hospitals or facilities that serve children. They deliver blankets to the facilities, but it is the staff at the recipient facility that hands out the blankets to children. That means that we rarely know who received a blanket, or how much they loved it. It is, therefore, exciting for us when we hear about the impact of one of our blankets on a child, or on the family of a child! To hear the story, and also get photos, is truly rare! This is Ollie's story:
![]() Ollie in his incubator When Ollie was born his esophagus was not properly attached, needed to be reattached, and he needed heart surgery. As if those surgeries weren't enough, after five weeks of fighting for his life, he developed a bad infection in his leg. The doctors told his parents that he might not make it. Ollie's grandmother was taking shifts with the family, staying with the baby at night. She corresponded by e-mail with one of our volunteers.
![]() Ollie
May 16: "He is in big trouble! I know that he wants to live. To look into his little eyes, you can see and feel it so clearly." May 20: "Wow, you won't believe it, today a lady brought Oliver the sweetest handmade (Project Linus) blanket. The really cool thing, that really doesn't mean anything, but yet it does, is that it is the prettiest blue with little yellow duckies on one side, and soft yellow on the other."
![]() Ollie on his Project Linus blanket "Oliver loves yellow, he really does. And the cool thing is that when I come to see him my pajamas are a little lighter blue, with yellow duckies on them! Just another little God Wink." The "coincidence" of Ollie's blanket being in the one color that he visually responds to, or in a pattern matching Grandma's pajamas, is not a surprise to Project Linus volunteers. Clearly, this blanket was intended for this family. We get letters saying things like "how did you know that green (or blue or purple) was my child's favorite color?" or "My child just loves clowns and your blanket was covered with clowns (or frogs, or sailboats, or puppies)." How did we know? We didn't, of course. It just happens -- often." ![]() Ollie and his sister (with his blanket)
![]() Ollie and his brother. Everybody loves the blanket!
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