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Basile gets to go home!

Today one of our inspiring patients got to sound the gong, a celebration of his discharge from CHEO after eight months, most of it on 4 North, our Hematology and Oncology unit.

Basile has sickle cell disease and when he arrived last July he was in septic shock. After getting out of intensive care he could barely move. Easy to smile, a lover of basketball and ever cooperative, Basile has come such a long, long way.

We are so glad for this day, but his CHEO family will miss him.

We know he’ll be shooting...

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CHEO Clinical Engineering brings out to the boogie in Ophthalmology

Did you know the Village People perform their 1978 disco hit Y.M.C.A every day at CHEO?

Young man, there’s no need to feel down…
I said young man, pick yourself off the ground…

It's fun to stay at the Y.M.C.A.
It's fun to stay at the Y.M.C.A.

Thanks to the creative work of Darryl Cameron and Marc Bergeron in Clinical Engineering, you can hear the Village People, the Jackons, Kool and the Gang, Fats Domino, Captain and Tenille and more in the Ophthalmology Clinic...

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Joshua rings the bell

It was a really special day for Joshua today, and not because it was a snow day. He rang the bell at CHEO to mark the end of his 3.5 years of treatment for leukemia.

So happy for him and his family.

Congrats from the whole CHEO team!

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