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Twelve-year-old Miles Postlethwait has been in and out of the hospital since he was born with multiple congenital defects. During one hospital stay, the Olathe boy told his parents he wished he had a friend just like me, someone who had similar defects and, more importantly, someone who could share his feelings of loneliness, fears and frustrations. Miles realized that other disease-stricken children who spent countless days in the hospital also needed such a friend. He would often hear lonely children crying in their hospital rooms while he and his parents walked the halls. Miles mother Marty Postlethwait, decided to find that little friend for her son and other children who spend a lot of time in the hospital. She did research and later developed Shadow Buddies, a line of dolls that are customized to have the same illness as that of the child who receives it. The dolls made their debut last November, but you wont see them at retail stores--at least not yet. Civic organizations and hospitals, many of them through corporate sponsors, are buying the dolls and distributing them at no cost to sick children. Now president of her own company, appropriately called Shadow Buddies, Postlethwait has sold about 4,000 Shadow Buddies dolls at $10 apiece. About 10,000 more dolls are being ordered to meet demand. Virtually every hospital in the Kansas City area has received the dolls, including Childrens Mercy Hospital, Overland Park Regional Medical Center, University of Kansas Medical Center and the Infant Development Center at Shawnee Mission Medical Center.

 

Address: The Shadow Buddies Foundation - 14700 West 107th Street, Suite 100 - Lenexa, Kansas 66215
Telephone: (913) 642-4646
Fax: (913) 642-4233
Website: http://www.shadowbuddies.com/buddybook/