Rose Ann and Mary Anne

That's my new friend Rose Ann Baluyot playing with the doll I gave her last Thursday, which we both named "Mary Anne". Rose Ann is 4 years old and has leukemia and stays in one of the wards in NCH. "Mary Anne" would be about...hmm..16, is one foot tall, has a lovely pink dress with long blonde hair (which I said needed rebonding), and will follow whatever Rose Ann says. When I said goodbye to Rose Ann, she was completely engrossed in Mary Anne, and again I felt such a lump in my throat, an old familiar feeling by now whenever I think of the Kythe kids and the little time I have with them. Beautiful Kimberly Saure from last October passed away before Christmas, and I was never able to give her the toy piano she wanted. http://msfrancisco.blogspot.com/2007/10/big-people-suck.html In fact, as work kept me very busy the past two months, I was never able to visit NCH anymore, till last Thursday, when I met Rose Ann.

So I'm seeing Rose Ann again come Thursday morning. And the rest of the Kythe kids -- all new friends, as most of my old ones have gone 'home' now to a much happier place.