Cherishing Every Moment With Beads of Courage
Cherishing Every Moment With Beads of Courage
NORTHAMPTON, MA / ACCESSWIRE / June 5, 2024 / Aflac Incorporated
Originally published on Aflac Newsroom
北安普頓，馬薩諸塞州／ACCESSWIRE／2024年6月5日／Aflac股份有限公司
最初在Aflac新聞室發佈
Charlie's smile was timid as her mother gingerly pulled the small patient wagon in which she sat into the room, the two having ventured downstairs on this recent Thursday afternoon to visit the Celebration of Courage Event sponsored by Aflac and Beads of Courage. It was week three of Charlie's stay as a patient at the Aflac Cancer and Blood Disorders Center of Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, and the first time the five-year-old had felt well enough to leave her room.
查理的微笑很溫柔，當她的母親小心翼翼地拉着孩子車進入房間時，這兩個人已經在週四下午冒險下樓參加了Aflac和勇氣珠子舉辦的慶祝活動。這是查理住在亞特蘭大兒童醫療中心的Aflac癌症和血液疾病中心的第三週，這是這個五歲孩子第一次感覺足夠好離開她的房間。
Celebrating the courage of patients and family members, the free of charge event was held to give them the opportunity to socialize and create new bead necklaces, clips and bracelets that help represent personal milestones in their treatment journeys. Among the bead selections were an Aflac Wingman Bead and a My Special Aflac Duck Bead, special nods to the 18 Aflac employee volunteers who had traveled from Columbus to help this afternoon.
舉行這次免費的慶祝活動是爲了慶祝患者和家庭成員的勇氣，並給他們一個社交和創建新的珠子項鍊，夾子和手鐲的機會，這些珠子有助於代表他們治療旅程中的個人里程碑。珠子的選擇包括Aflac的翼友珠子和我的特殊Aflac鴨珠子。Aflac有18名員工志願者，他們從哥倫布前來幫助百忙之中。
Five-year-old Dewey was looking forward to the event, almost as much as he was to turning six the next week, his mother, Megan, admitted as they made their way from one bead station to the next. Dewey sat quietly in his wheelchair, his collection of colorful beads threaded together by a brown string laying on a bright green tray across his lap. There were shiny blue beads, yellow ones and others in various shades of red, green and brown, some with swirls and stripes and even one with a rainbow. Five square, white beads, each with its own bold, black letter, were strung together to spell out his name.
五歲的杜威很期待這次活動，幾乎和他下週六歲生日一樣，他的母親梅根承認，在他們從一個珠子站到另一個珠子站的路上。杜威靜靜地坐在輪椅裏，他的一系列繽紛的珠子被一根褐色的繩子穿在他的膝蓋上的一個明亮的綠色托盤上。有閃亮的藍色珠子，黃色的珠子，還有各種紅色，綠色和棕色的珠子，有些有漩渦和條紋，甚至有一個彩虹。有五個方形的白色珠子，每個有自己的大膽黑色字母，拼成了他的名字。
"Some represent procedures and other milestones," his mother said of the multiple dozens of beads Dewey brought with him. "Others, he just liked the colors.
他的母親談到了多達幾十個杜威帶來的珠子，其中一些代表了手術和其他里程碑，“其他的他就是喜歡顏色。”
"Little things make him happy."
“小事讓他快樂。”
Aflac volunteers helped Dewey pick out even more beads to add to his collection.
Aflac志願者幫助杜威挑選更多的珠子加入他的收藏品。
"I was so happy to see the smiles on all of the faces," said Angel Whittlesey Aflac's Digital Enrollment Support Analyst, who volunteered alongside husband Marlon, an Aflac Senior HR Investigations Consultant. The couple handed out strength bracelets and helped patients design and select beads for their own origami crane strand necklaces. Others manned bead stations with activities honoring siblings and parents, and some handed out Certificates of Courage and helped patients weigh their bead collections.
“我很高興看到所有臉上的微笑。” Aflac的數字登記支持分析師安吉爾·惠特爾西說，她和丈夫馬龍一起做志願者，後者是Aflac的高級人力資源調查顧問。這對夫婦發放力量手鐲，幫助患者設計和選擇他們自己的摺紙鶴項鍊珠子。其他人使用活動慶祝兄弟姐妹和父母，併發放勇氣證書，幫助患者稱量他們的珠子收藏。
"I was happy to see how positive the patients and families were," said volunteer Jalisa Jakes, Aflac's Associate Talent Recruiter. "It reminded me to be more mindful of being positive. Don't take life for granted.
“我很高興看到患者和家庭成員是如此積極。”志願者雅莉莎·賈克斯說，她是Aflac的副人才招聘顧問。 “這讓我想起要更加註意保持積極狀態。不要把生活看成理所當然。
"Cherish every moment."
“珍惜每一刻。”
Visit the Beads of Courage website to find out more about and to donate to the program.
請訪問勇氣珠子網站，了解更多信息，併爲該計劃捐款。
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