Once a year, I send an emailed reflection to everyone in our Streetlight community. We offer thanks to our volunteers, our patients, our team at UF Health, and the individuals in the community that enable Streetlight support through their valuable giving. Not everyone likes reading a newsletter, so I wrote our Year-End Brief inspired by a familiar holiday classic. The text reads to the tune of “Carol of the Bells.” If you would like to listen to the audio version as well, you can find ithere.
Hark! Hear the rhyme, telling it’s time, Ending the year, please listen here, Behold it’s the, Brief ’23, your Streetlight Wrapped, I think I’ve snapped,
Let’s start this tune, with Autoimmune, We and our friends, Arts in Medicine, Helped patients share, artwork of their, Identities, Ishan on keys,
Art on display, oh what a day, Now you can view, each piece anew, Here at this link, T’will make you think, Of all their skill, oh what a thrill,
Very Very Merry Year of Streetlight, Very Very Merry Year of Streetlight, On on we go, so you can know, All of the fun, that we have done,
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Autoimmune Awareness Month. Streetlight collaborated with Arts in Medicine to put on an opening reception…
Next be aware, that you should care, For sickle cell, oh let me tell, You of our Walk, now we can talk, Community, “Strides for SC,”
Our Warriors, who it was for, Walked hand in hand, those who could stand, At the event, were many tents, Vendors, food trucks, raising the bucks,
Nothing atilt, we hung a quilt, Made by our folks, bearing the yolks, Of faith and pain, their hope and strain, Stories of Strength, stitched through the length,
Very Very Merry Year of Streetlight, Very Very Merry Year of Streetlight, On on we go, so you can know, All of the fun, that we have done,
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Time for CF, cheers to the chef, At BJ’s Brewhouse, sauces they douse, On the free meals, they give us deals, Each admission, patients get one,
Cancer stinks too, so we must do, All that we can, making a plan, Parties are thrown, for milestones, But who sustains, all of our gains?
Here’s your answer, Climb for Cancer, Riqui V’s CHOMP, filling the swamp, With their support, we can exhort, Palliative care, make all aware,
Very Very Merry Year of Streetlight, Very Very Merry Year of Streetlight, On on we go, so you can know, All of the fun, that we have done,
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And then there was, Purple Playas, Who wrote a check, to fund out tech, For our TV’s, we asked Lily’s Warrior Project, show them respect!
We have Discord, our message board, Virtual chats, high gaming stats, Minecraft, Halo, and Mario, Patients will meet, while they compete,
And now that I’m, all out of time, I can’t forget, the data set, Iterative, qualitative, Themes did emerge, here’s our research.
Very Very Merry Year of Streetlight, Very Very Merry Year of Streetlight, Thanks to your help, let’s give a yelp, Streetlight is here, another year!
