HOPE Ornaments visits over 30 Illinois

hospitals, visiting the patients and

giving them their own HOPE

Ornament to keep.

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About HOPE Ornaments

Thousands of children and adults spend their holidays in the hospital each year battling cancer and other life threatening diseases.

HOPE Ornaments delivers beautifully wrapped ornaments to these patients, bringing them a little joy to their day and a smile to their face. They get to pick out their own ornament to keep. Our gift is being able to see how something as simple as a cute, funny or pretty ornament can make someone’s day a little special.

HOPE Ornaments needs your help in collecting ornaments. We visit hospitals throughout the month of December, including Christmas Day.

Please feel free to reach out to members of your office, school, local church and organizations for donations of store bought ornaments to give to patients.

Due to infection control, we donate only newly purchased ornaments. If projects for schools/ churches are requested to be done, please contact us for what is or can be accepted.

There is no need to gift you’re your donations, as all donated

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ornaments have to be checked for safety reasons. HOPE Ornaments will provide the gift wrapping of the ornaments.

Examples of Ornaments

Infants & Kids: Baby’s first Christmas, Teddy Bears, Snowmen, Disney, Ballerinas and Super Heroes.

Teens & Adults: Sports, Angels, Dogs & Cats, Starts and Snowflakes.

Please limit glass ornaments, as they have sharp edges or may break.

For additional information please contact Lyzzi Elliott at (847)903.5565 or lyzzi.elliott@gmail.com

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Ornaments can be shipped or dropped off to:

HOPE Ornaments

Att: Lyzzi Elliott

562 Second Street

Grayslake, IL 60030

Look for our donation boxes at:

Something’s Brewing

1126 E Washington Street

Grayslake, IL

Across from CLC

Something’s Brewing

82 Center St., Grayslake IL

Dollar General Grayslake

61 Center St., Grayslake IL

HOPE Ornaments

HOPE: the theological virtue defined as the desire and search for future good, difficult but not impossible to attain.

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Some of the hospitals we visit include:

Adv.Condell Medical Center

Alexian Brothers Medical Center

Children’s Memorial Hospital

Edwards Hospital

RUSH University Hospital

UIC Medical Center

Complete list available upon request

In loving memory of our HOPE family we lost in 2013

Mia Ortiz

May 11, 2012 – June 10, 2013

Nansea Slocum

July 18, 1977 – January 27, 2013

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Gwen has been a part of our HOPE Ornaments family for several years. Pictured above is Gwen and her husband delivering ornaments to patients at RML Hospital last year.

Gwen’s family and friends are uniting together to help raise money to assist in her ongoing battle with heart failure & to offset the cost of a transplant. This year HOPE Ornaments will donate 10% of all money donations to her cause.

Gwen is a loving wife and devoted friend. She has always put her needs and wants secondary to others. She’s all but raised 2 of her younger siblings, while working & when she was ill – parenting and providing for them for over a decade. She’s the first to volunteer and give her last dollar to charities such as HOPE Ornaments.

In 2002 Gwen was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma & treated with surgery and radiation therapy. Her “cure” unfortunately caused more scarring on internal organs & future ailments.

In 2008, after a long history of stomach issues, kidney stones, extreme fatigue and various bronchial infections – Gwen came down with pneumonia. After nearly 2 weeks in the hospital, she was diagnosed with heart failure and a prolapsed mitral valve; due to the scarring of her heart from radiation treatments. During an angiogram, her heart stopped and she had to be revived.

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Her health seemed to be doing better through diet, cardiac checkups and medication until May of 2013. She was transported to Christ Hospital in Oak Lawn and within 24 hours a LVAD was implanted along with an aortic & mytro valve replacement to deter her cardiac failure. The device then caused an issue with the right side of her heart and had to get a RVAD implanted. Gwen had a total of 4 heart surgeries, was sedated for 8 days and hospitalized in critical care for 2 months.

Gwen received her heart at the end of October, and is continuing to get a little stronger everyday. Now that you know a little more about the wonderful person she is, you can see how HOPE Ornaments wouldn’t be the same without her.

For additional information please contact HOPE Ornaments or visit http://www.youcaring.com/medical-fundraiser/giving-for-gwendolyn/98660

Giving For Gwendolyn: HOPE

Ornaments will donate 10% of all money donations