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Grateful for our caring and generous neighbors - SoutheastHEALTH

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Annual Share Walk<br />

On a beautiful fall Saturday in October, over 50<br />

people from throughout the area gathered at Cape<br />

County Park <strong>for</strong> the annual Share “Walk to Remember.”<br />

Share of Southeast Hospital serves families<br />

<strong>and</strong> caregivers by providing free peer counseling,<br />

in<strong>for</strong>mation, education <strong>and</strong> care <strong>for</strong> families who have<br />

experienced miscarriage, stillbirth <strong>and</strong> neonatal death.<br />

Following a memorial service <strong>and</strong> one-mile walk, a<br />

balloon release honored families who attended the walk<br />

<strong>and</strong> the babies <strong>for</strong> whom they grieve.<br />

The continuation <strong>and</strong> success of the <strong>SoutheastHEALTH</strong><br />

Share program relies solely upon the support of the<br />

Foundation. Gayle Unverferth <strong>and</strong> Linda Logan, Share<br />

program coordinators, say this support enables them to<br />

provide care, com<strong>for</strong>t, <strong>and</strong> other res<strong>our</strong>ces to <strong>our</strong> Share<br />

families. “We would not be able to sustain this program<br />

without the Foundation.”<br />

Barb Enderle Share’s<br />

Support<br />

Barb <strong>and</strong> Kyle Enderle lost their baby girl,<br />

Kyla Jo Enderle, June 25, 2003. Every<br />

year since their tragic loss, the Enderles<br />

present a gift basket to the first girl born at<br />

Southeast on their daughter’s birthday in<br />

loving memory of Kyla Jo. Barb explains, “It’s<br />

a way to celebrate Kyla’s birthday <strong>and</strong> help<br />

another parent celebrate the birth of their<br />

daughter too.”<br />

Barb is a volunteer with the Southeast Share<br />

program which offers counseling <strong>and</strong><br />

support to families who have experienced<br />

the loss of a baby. Barb says, “The Share<br />

volunteers were such a blessing to us. That’s<br />

why I became involved. Share provides the<br />

support to work through the overwhelming<br />

grief as well as providing burial <strong>for</strong> the<br />

babies of those families who cannot af<strong>for</strong>d it.<br />

Share also gives the family some items that<br />

provide tangible proof that they indeed had<br />

a precious baby. This program is so valuable<br />

<strong>for</strong> those families. Thank you, Southeast-<br />

HEALTH Foundation.”<br />

<strong>SoutheastHEALTH</strong> Foundation 2010–2011 Annual Report<br />

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