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                I would like to introduce you to our new friend. Meet Ernie.

Meet Ernie

    Ernie is a volunteer at St. Rose Dominican Hospital in Henderson, NV.  Taylor and I first met Ernie roughly 5-6 weeks ago when she first became hospitalized during the complications that she has faced with her shunt. Ernie has taught me more than I can express in the last 6 weeks! Let me tell you a little about him. Ernie is at the hospital roughly 5-6 days a week. He walks to the hospital and arrives every morning  around 4-5 am. Some mornings he stands at the doors as nurses come in and greets them with warm coffee. He assists on the pediatric floor with such things as bringing food to the patients, paperwork, answering phones & making phonecalls, running various errands for the families (he walks, because he chooses to walk too and from work and to various stores for needs of others), and  he does what he can to bring peace and cheer to all of the patients and their families with such things as writing poems, reading stories, and telling jokes. These are only a few things that he does to brighten the lives of others. AND to top it all off he is a volunteer. He doesn’t get paid, he strictly does this from his heart. I have gotten to know Ernie more and more over the past 6 weeks, and am proud to call him a new friend to our family. One thing I would like to tell you that I learned is that Ernie is dying of cancer. He has been told awhile ago that his time left is short…AND he keeps defeating the odds that the doctors are giving him. I was told by one of the nurses that Ernie said he had finished his bucket list and ready to go when God wants him to. I could go on and on and continue to say all the stuff he shared with us and have done for us this last week, and instead I am going to simply say… Well, God obviously wanted me to meet Ernie,  his spirit, joy, and the peace that he has had has taught me what is important to me in life. I have never met anyone like him and I know I never will. Call him an Angel if you’d like. I am calling him one!

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