08-11-2009, 03:22 AM
VERY good article on the work of Child's Play, a console and video game charity founded by Penny Arcade for children's hospitals.
http://kotaku.com/5333593/gaming-before-...lds-escape
Excerpt:
Hope the Philippines could have something like this too.
http://kotaku.com/5333593/gaming-before-...lds-escape
Excerpt:
Quote:His parents can recite the days from memory. What parent couldn't, for such watershed trauma in the life of a boy and his family.
On September 4, 2008, they found out he had a tumor in his brain. He was in the intensive care unit, often screaming in pain, until September 13, when he was transferred up to Unit 35. That stay lasted until September 18. He had the PICC line, a catheter he carries inside of him, inserted then. Every time he comes back here, they plug it into something. Sometimes it's an IV on a wheeled stand, dripping saline. Other times, it's feeding him chemicals - poison, fundamentally.
His dad, wearing jeans and a weather-beaten NBA Live 2003 t-shirt, pushes this rack, hand on his 7-year-old son's shoulder. They are here, in Portland, Oregon, at The Children's Hospital at Legacy Emanuel, to begin another battery of chemotherapy. This time will be the "B" treatment in the cycle; it makes the hair fall out. And worse. The pair enter a cheerfully painted room and sit down at a long counter.
They pick up Xbox controllers.
Hope the Philippines could have something like this too.
