
{"id":16160,"date":"2011-02-24T11:41:56","date_gmt":"2011-02-24T16:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=16160"},"modified":"2011-02-24T11:41:56","modified_gmt":"2011-02-24T16:41:56","slug":"letter-tablecloths-and-smiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2011\/02\/24\/letter-tablecloths-and-smiles\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter: Tablecloths and smiles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every Tuesday evening, smiles appear on the faces of patients and their live-in caregivers on the Bone Marrow Transplant Unit of N.C. Cancer Hospital, the clinical home of UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center.<\/p>\n<p>What delights everyone is the anticipated arrival of the &#8220;Dinners on Tuesday&#8221; meal donated by our area\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s finest restaurants.<\/p>\n<p>Community volunteers and hospital staff come together to make these nights special.<\/p>\n<p>Tablecloths, flowers and homemade desserts grace the lobby area of the 4th floor suite, so that caregivers are provided a relaxing atmosphere and can chat with the families and friends of other patients.<\/p>\n<p>Our restaurants deliver meals two weeks in a row to the hospital. We applaud them for their generous and delicious donations. The positive response by everyone involved has been overwhelming: owners, managers, their staff and delivery services.<\/p>\n<p>The program wishes to thank Acme Restaurant, Carrboro; Daniel\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s, Apex; Honeybaked Ham, Durham; Maggiano\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s, Durham; PF Chang\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s, Durham; Piola, Chapel Hill; Ruth\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Chris Steakhouse, Durham; Shula\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 347 Grill, Chapel Hill; Spice Street, Chapel Hill; and Top of the Hill, Chapel Hill.<\/p>\n<p>It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s wonderful to have such committed businesses in our community to support not only this program, but all programs for patients and families undergoing treatment at UNC. <\/p>\n<p>Linda Karp<br \/>\n<em>Volunteer Coordinator<br \/>\nN.C. Cancer Hospital<br \/>\nBMT Buddy Program<br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\nLoretta Muss<br \/>\n<em>Coordinator<br \/>\nN.C. Cancer Hospital<br \/>\nPatient and Family Advisory Board<br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\nDianne G. Shaw<br \/>\n<em>Deputy Director of Communications<br \/>\nUNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every Tuesday evening, smiles appear on the faces of patients and their live-in caregivers on the Bone Marrow Transplant Unit of N.C. Cancer Hospital &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16160"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16237,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16160\/revisions\/16237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}