SharivilleLife stories from Shari

Hello all , happy Halloween. It’s fun here tonight, Felecia, my grandaugter, and her boyfriend Tyler are getting ready to go to a downtown  Fort Worth Club to celebrate, Angie is doing her hair for the occasion.  Here is a picture after hair and makeup.

Today Angie took Jerry and I to lunch at a place called Which Wich.  It’s different from any place we have been before.  You walk in and take a paper bag and on the bag has a choice of sandwiches, and what you want on the sandwich, you mark it pay for it and the sandwich is made according to your directions. Then you pick up the sandwich when they call your name and it’s packaged in the original bag. It’s a really healthy place to eat, they are a lot like Subs only better and more unique.

Yesterday morning we went to Tommy”s shop at 360 Wraps.  It was baby day, and Tommy and Tyler wrapped helmets for 16 different babies.  There were no multiples yesterday, but he has done helmets for quadruplets before.  The reason for the helmets is a condition called Plagiocephaly, it’s misshapen heads for one reason or another, usually happens in the womb with multiples, they just run out of room and get squeezed.  The helmets are worn 23 hours a day.  They cost $3,600 each .  They come  in plain white, made of medical plastic material and are adjustable.   The kids wear these helmets from 2 to 6 mos. and it takes about 4 months to correct the condition.  Tommy got into this helmet wrapping because a desperate father came in asking if Tommy could wrap his kids helmet with something colorful, it seems sibblings and other people kind of stared as in plain white it did make it look like a medical device and the babies stood out and the sibblings made fun of it.  Well, this has become Tommy and Angie’s charity, as they do not charge for this and to this day Tommy and Tyler have wrapped 95 helmets.  The parents are so delighted and now their babies are so admired.  It’s fun for them to pick a design and color with the babies name on the helmets.  It’s now a status symbol for what otherwise was a stigma. Now they have to have an appointment and Tommy devotes one day a month to do the babies, and he does it for free.  Click here for more info www.wrapbuddies.com.  We were lucky enough to get to be here for baby day and it was fun.  The parents bring food like a pot luck of finger foods, everyone shares and it’s a real event.  These parents are so happy with this, and it’s increasing all the time by word of mouth.  It’s amazing how many babies have this condition.  All the parents bring camera’s and photograph the process and then want a picture with Tommy holding the babies.  This way Tommy gets his baby fix too.

We did find a place for the trailer just down the street from the kids.  It’s not perfect, but it’s great to be so close.  That way when Jerry is in the hospital, and the Doc said from 7 to 9 days.  It won’t have far to drive to the kids.   Tommy is letting us use the Scion while we are here.

Well that’s all that’s new for now, each day something goes on here.    More later…Hugs  S and J