Best Medicine Matters Fall 2009 - Mount Sinai Hospital
Best Medicine Matters Fall 2009 - Mount Sinai Hospital
Best Medicine Matters Fall 2009 - Mount Sinai Hospital
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1001 – 522 University Avenue<br />
Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5G 1W7<br />
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Big Thanks from a Little Boy<br />
Cooper White points to his dove<br />
By all accounts, Cooper White’s ninth<br />
birthday party was pretty spectacular. It<br />
was held at a gymnastics facility with<br />
a sponge pit and climbing ropes and a<br />
sponge wall that the birthday boy knocked<br />
down himself. Wrapped up with all the<br />
fun and games was a serious endeavour<br />
— fundraising for <strong>Mount</strong> <strong>Sinai</strong>’s Valentine<br />
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). For<br />
the second year in a row, Cooper asked his<br />
friends for donations, instead of birthday<br />
gifts. Cooper’s generosity inspired his<br />
friends to respond in kind, and he raised<br />
over $500 for the NICU.<br />
“I wanted to thank the nurses and I<br />
wanted to help the little babies again,”<br />
Cooper said as he handed his birthday<br />
donation to Melissa Cooper, RN, NICU,<br />
accompanied by his younger brother,<br />
Wyatt, and his parents, Cathy Coulthard<br />
and David White.<br />
Not so long ago, Cooper was one of those<br />
“little babies”. “I weighed about 2.5 lb.<br />
when I was born,” he said. Cooper spent<br />
almost three weeks in <strong>Mount</strong> <strong>Sinai</strong>’s NICU<br />
before he was transferred to a hospital<br />
closer to his family’s Burlington home.<br />
“What he’s done is so great,” said<br />
Melissa Cooper. “It’s amazing to get this<br />
much appreciation.”<br />
“It’s all his own idea,” said Cathy. “He<br />
talks about it a lot, the fact that if people<br />
hadn’t donated to <strong>Mount</strong> <strong>Sinai</strong> before, he<br />
might not be here. He has one of those<br />
doves with his name on it on the wall,<br />
and we used to drop by and look at it.”<br />
“I saw it on the way here today,” said<br />
Cooper. Clearly, he’s a boy who makes the<br />
most of every minute — and every birthday.<br />
1001 – 522 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5G 1W7<br />
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