Try This Tuesday: Medical Badge

Today's post comes to us from Candace and Faith. Be sure to stop by their blog, Living With Faith, and learn more about this sweet little girl and her family.

Faith has this love affair with those little clips that nurses put their badges on. You know, the ones with zip cords that can be pulled out.
She loves to beg these off of our nurses...wherever we go. They always give it and let her play with them.

So when we went for her one month follow up, at Shriner's last week, one of her nurses had bought her this fancy one with her initial on it!
It was so cute and diva~ish
So I got to thinking that I needed to do something creative and meaningful with it.

It also got me thinking about how people see Faith and sometimes ask me about her, like she isn't there or she doesn't understand them. They often talk "over" her. I have developed a way to combat that by saying things like.."Faith tell them how old you are.." or "Tell them hello" so they have to refocus their attention and then realize that she is able to understand them, most of the time. So I decided to put my mind making Faith her own id badge. This is what I came up with....



I found these self sealing laminating tags from my favorite place on earth, BIG LOTS for a dollar. (Two to a pack)



Then I cut two pieces of scrapbook paper and a picture of her and pasted them together....



Then I used leftover scrapbooking sticker to write on the front of the card...



I hung the tag on her wheelchair right where people can see it. She actually met a young man at a local church on Sunday, thru her badge. He came up and wanted to know about her name and how she got it. He was very kind and very friendly!
SUCCESS!
Now my next goal is to teach her how to pull on it and hand it to people when she meets them!

I also use these pouches to list emergency info for her on her car seat, wheelchair and bags. I usually list phone numbers, identifying info about her, info about her conditions and medication lists.








Thank you Candace and Faith for sharing this great idea with us