Awesome Sauce: The Kickoff to Radiothon

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Be Awesome Sauce. Start your day on a positive note.
Awesome Sauce six to ten weekday mornings with the B
Natty three Morning Show. Awesome Sauce Today is not about
one person. It is about all of you, the B
Natty three listener family. It is about what happens when
West Michigan shows up for Helen of Oz Children's Hospital

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and Radiothon. Every single year. The dollars raised during Radiothon
goes straight into the helend of Oz Children's Hospital annual Fund,
and that fund quietly powers more than twenty life changing programs,
programs that families rely on during the hardest moments of
their lives. So here's what your generosity from Radiothon last

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year has helped to do throughout the course of twenty
twenty five. The Parent to Parent Nick You Mentor Program.
When a baby arrives too early or too sick, and
parents are suddenly navigating a world of tubes and alarm
and fear, this program pairs them with other parents who
have been there. Oh my goodness, that is a support
group like none other. Yeah yeah, this power is the

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caregiver Meal program. No one tells you how expensive it
is just to sit beside your child in a hospital bed. Yeah,
a lot of parents have to skip meals to save
money and get sick themselves in doing so. Philanthropy stepped
in to provide more than three thousand meal trays so
that families could stay nourished while they help their kids

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in the hospital. And honestly, it's the last thing you
want to be thinking about in that moment. Exactly, that's
how we're going to eat, and a lot of parents
it's an afterthought. Right. Art Therapy, the first full time
art therapist, was brought healing into rooms where words don't
always come easily. More than sixteen hundred patients were able
to use paint, medical tools, color and creativity to express fear,

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build understanding, and feel empowered even during procedures. The facility dog, indeed,
Golden Retriever, has become an instant legend. We're going to
get to see Indy a little bit later. She spends
her day's easing anxiety when radiation and sedation, climbing into labs,

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offering comfort and even letting kids parade her around in
a wagon. Ah. I love it when you donate to radiothon,
you are not just funding equipment or numbers on a spreadsheet.
You are funding life changing moments that make some of
the scariest days of these children's lives not so scary.

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So Radiothon isn't just about raising the money, It's about
raising hope. And in West Michigan, the B Natty three
listener family steps up every single time. We have less
than an hour until the phone's open at seven o'clock
one eight hundred B ninety three kids, or you can
give right now at bnety three dot com. That's how

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you start your day on a positive note. I hope
this is going to be a really big day for us. Yeah.
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