Rachel Hale
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178 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Mar 2026
last heard 25 Aug
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Because maybe what started as, you know, I'm going to camp because I really want to be able to swim in the lake or do the ropes course becomes something where there's more emotional support over time as her condition continued to evolve as well.
When I saw her this summer, you know, she was in a wheelchair because of some of the pain that she was dealing with that specific week.
And she also has a
Kane and spoke to me about how her condition in in her eyes has rapidly worsened.
And, you know, it made it so that camp was not necessarily easy every day, but she still was proud of herself for being there.
And so I think that as these kids get older, the role that camp evolves too, to where it's not just like fun all the time, but it's also answering these hard questions about like the relationship with the illness and how does this illness evolve as as
As we get older and how are we going to, you know, move forward with this as part of our life without it defining us?
Staff goes through, you know, training each year and they have a combination of staff who are volunteers and paid medical staff.
And this medical staff comes in being prepared for really like any ailment that could happen, in addition to the standard protocol that they have for for the kids' chronic illnesses.
So I was very impressed when I saw the hospital on camp because it really the
Way that someone there described me is that they're a hospital disguised as a camp.
And it felt that way.
It was a really fun and lighthearted place, despite it being a hospital, but it was also really fully equipped for any emergency.
So, you know, they've got a monitoring room, a recitation room, an ambulance, helipad for transportation to hospitals.
You know, they can fly someone into the Bronx if they need.
They're really equipped for any emergency.
That they would need.
And staff also has trained themselves to be equipped for different illnesses.
You know, they told me that they had one year where there was a child who was on dialysis.
And so they had nurses go and get certified to administer that.
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