CHICAGO (CBS) — The hospital is no place for a kid to be around the holidays, but one Chicago organization – Holiday Heroes – does its part to make kids more comfortable.
Christmas is right around the corner, but there’s no place one particular elf would rather be than at 3-year-old Finley’s side.
“He is inpatient right now, and he’s been here for 15 days or so. Somewhere in there. I’ve lost count,” said his mother, Jessica Edgar.
Holly has traveled from Santa’s workshop at the North Pole bring warmth to Finley and other children at Central DuPage Hospital in Winfield. To kids like Finley, days at the hospital are a blur, but his mom, will remember the moment an elf just doing her job for Holiday Heroes brought a bit of Christmastime joy to Finley.
“It’s amazing. Our mission is simply to spread joy to pediatric patients in the hospital,” said Holiday Heroes executive director Lynn Reckamp. “We just kind of take their mind off what they’re going through, and bring some happiness.”