April 18, 2003

Pediatric patients — queens for a day

Patients of MassGeneral Hospital for Children were treated like royalty April 11, as students from the Wheaton College chapter of "Queen for a Day" pampered the patients from head to toe in the Ellison 17 playroom.

Current and former young female patients were treated to manicures and makeup, then dressed up and modeled their queenly attire. The girls also designed their own personal page in a photo album that will be added to the chapters' collection. The crowning moment for each girl was donning a tiara and a robe and walking down the carpet to her throne as her admirers cheered and took pictures.

Queen for a Day is a national, nonprofit organization designed to raise the self-esteem and self-confidence of girls coping with serious illness.