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LEE COUNTY, FL – The Golisano Children’s Hospital is turning some of it’s sick patients into rock stars — transforming their hospital rooms into a virtual fantasy. The hospital is eight-year-old Michael Gleisle’s second home.  Since the day he was born, Michael has spent half of his life in the hospital.  His asthma is so severe, it could kill him.  Read more here…

Elias Wendland, 7, sits with his eyes closed in a wheelchair in his Liberty Township home. Brian Schreck, music therapist for StarShine Palliative Care and Hospice at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, wraps the child’s fingers around a mallet. They begin tapping together on a small blue ukulele. Elias’ eyes flicker and then pop wide open. Read more here…

A music therapist from South Wales has told of her horror at being tear gassed while working with special needs children in Palestine. Liz Coombes, from Cardiff, says it is the first time she has been tear gassed during 10 years working as a volunteer there. But she has promised to return, despite mounting problems in recent months, and hopes to send students from the music therapy MA course she leads at the University of South Wales to teach there. Read more here…

MOUNT Annan mum Emma Reedy wasn’t overly concerned when her young daughter Talyn complained of a sore throat.But when just hours later she was unable to move her arms, Mrs Reedy knew something was wrong.She had no way of knowing a medical emergency was brewing and that by the end of the next day, her three-year-old daughter would be in the intensive care unit, paralysed. Read more here…