LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) – On Saturday, University Medical Center’s Lions Burn Care Center held its 21st annual Little Roar Holiday Party – where pediatric burn survivors and their families got to celebrate the holidays with the hospital heroes who helped them recover.
“Thank you for saving my life, UMC, and my nurse Miss Stacy,” said Jose, a young burn survivor at the party.
“When I was three years old, I fell and hit a pot filled with hot water and got burned all over. Then I got sent to UMC, got my burns treated there, and here we are,” said Danber, another burn survivor.
The Little Roar Holiday Party is a chance for pediatric burn survivors and their families a chance to spend time with the doctors, nurses and first responders who aided in their recovery.
“It’s being amazing. Every year we always wait for this season to meet our nurse, Miss Stacy. She was our unit nurse when Jose had his accident,” said Jose’s mother.
“It’s very important because I like to see everyone and catch up and just have the fun with people I haven’t seen in a minute,” said Danber, who attends the party every year.
The party is also a chance for the burn survivors to let loose and meet others just like them.
“We did a throwing axe game. We played tic tac toe, cornhole,” said one family member at the party.
“We just want to provide a little bit of normalcy for them, something to celebrate that they’re out of the hospital and have gone back to their normal lives,” said Yasmin Conaway, burn program manager at UMC’s Lions Burn Care Center. “It’s also really wonderful to see them Light up and You know, be around other kids that Have been through something similar, be able to just let free and be kids again.”
Conaway says UMC’s Little Roar Holiday Party started 21 years ago as a pizza party with only a few former patients, but this year, about 200 people joined the party.
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