Carrie from Senior Select

This wonderful lady not only gives seniors great advise. We showed her our caps. The next week she came in with a bunch of caps that her mother made for us. The caps are beautiful and will make many people happy. And that's our goal! So thank you, Carrie! And 'mom' too!

Busy tagging caps

It takes more than knitting and crocheting to make a project complete. Mary and Marie can't knit or crochet but they have other talents that we need. Not only do we need to have someone roll our yarn into balls, we also need someone to put the tags on the caps that are ready for delivery.

Check out these caps!!

Here are some very pretty, bright and cheerful caps.

Another Note of Thanks

I want you to know that I have enjoyed two of your chemo caps which I got from a box at UT Southwestern Infusion area. I have been in chemotherapy for 5 months and of course, lost my hair. Your caps have been soft and comfortable, and have kept my head warm at home. Thank you for making these lovely caps for us. The effort and thought are greatly appreciated.

American Cancer Society Patient Navigator at Parkland sends a 'thank you'.

Hello, my name is Andrea Wright and I work in the Parkland Oncology Clinic. I am a social worker and work as an American Cancer Society Patient Navigator at Parkland. We have a resource room right in our lobby and we receive caps from your group! I just wanted to thank everyone who makes the caps and let you all know how beautiful they are! I was struck by the story on the blog that said Joyce was tired of itchy, uncomfortable hats and that is why these caps are made of such soft yarn. I receive caps from other groups as well, however the one's from Joyce's chemo caps are usually the softest and prettiest and go the fastest! Well, I just wanted to let you know how appreciative I am as well as are the patient's here who receive them, most of whom don't have the resources to go out and buy a lot of hats when they lose their hair. Thanks so much to all who make the beautiful caps!!They are truly needed!!

Thanks,
Andrea Wright, LMSW
Parkland Oncology Clinic, American Cancer Society Resource Room

Day of Giving and Receiving

What a day it was Tuesday. Lena, Vivian, Bill and I went on a little trip to give out caps and to receive donations. Our first stop was to the Cathedral Of Hope Church in Dallas. It was a beautiful church and the people there are just wonderful. Dan Peeler met us there. I knew that they were going to give us a donation but WOW! They collected money for our project and some of the members made caps for us. Twenty five caps. Here are some pictures of the caps. And then, Dan brings us to a room where there were boxes of yarn for us! I'm talking about YARN! Great yarn for caps, beautiful colors. They were counting yards of yarn that they were collecting but decided to stop counting when they reached 50,000 yards of yarn!!Now thats a lot of caps!





Dan is the minister for children and families at the church. He gave the eulogy for Joyce's memorial and had had such comforting words. He's also an artist! Here is a small sample of the murials that are on the walls in the children's rooms at the church.




Our next stop was the Cancer Center at UTSW. Huge hospital. We met Angela and Leslie there and had a good talk with them. This is where Joyce had her treatments. Such nice people. They are really interested in our project. They said that everyone is so happy to pick out a cap to wear. That's what we love to hear and why we make the caps.



Our last stop was to Parkland Hospital. We didn't go into the hospital. A volunteer came out to meet us and get the caps. It's quite a busy hospital.

After our visits, we went to lunch and back to the center to get our cars. I started to use one of the skeins of yarn when I got home.

We have to thank Bill for the help and encouragement he is giving us with our project. Like I told Bill, 'Joyce is still with us in this project and it's because of her that we continue'. We miss her dearly.

And to top everything off, Kate brought us a bag of yarn today! God Bless her.

Now we sure could use some more knitters and crocheters!

Message from Muriel in Brasil.

I received a card in my Postcrossing adventure. It's from Murial. This is the message that she sent to me. If you click on the postcard, it will zoom bigger.