Advent Health Hospitals

Kathy Becerril shared “I was diagnosed 8 years ago with MS and ended up disabled and walking became very difficult. After working all my life, I could not just sit around so I started sewing Little Dresses for Africa and after several years I ended up with plastic tubs of small fabric scraps that I could not bring myself to throw away. So this year I started looking for ladies that quilted to see if anyone wanted all those scraps and being at my local hospital several times a month for medical reasons, I started asking there and found out they had a volunteer program that needed all kinds of items. I never realized this before and was intrigued and signed up. The first project I saw that I knew I could do was heart-shaped pillows for the cardiac patients to hold to their chest after surgery when they have to cough which keeps them from tearing loose the stitches. I pulled out all those scraps and started sewing them into these pillows. I was so happy to find a purpose for all those little scraps and they did not end up in a landfill. I don’t know how to quilt, but I am learning how to piece them all together and have completed and donated over 30 pillows so far to my local Advent Health Hospital here in Florida.”