SWEET VALENTINE GIRL

We have become very creative when it comes to celebrating special occasions at Duke. So for Valentine's Day we decided to do a little lunch for Shantel and her friends (also Duke patients) Chelsea and Chris. Happily Chris was able to go home. Neither of the girls had any idea what we were doing. We just told them to not eat lunch and have whatever treatments, etc. done by 1:00. Now Shantel and Chelsea are not allowed to be very close to each other so it was a bit tricky to come up with how we could do lunch without them in the same room. Just so happens Shantel's room is across from the nurses station so we set Chelsea (in the blue shirt) up there and moved Shantel's table to her doorway and that way they could talk to each other but not be that close together. The tables were decorated with a red table cloth, a red rose, heart plates and napkins and gifts. The menu was wings from East Coast Wings. The girls were so excited and had a great time! I want to say thank you to the staff on 5300 for always going along with our wild and often times crazy ideas we come up with to keep life in the hospital as normal and fun as we can.

Our sweet little Valentine Shantel


Shantel's friend Chelsea