When I was in 3rd grade I was diagnosed with ITP, which is some long medical term for low blood platelets. It's a virus that attaches to your platelets, the natural clotting agent in your blood, and whenever they passed through my spleen, they were flagged and destroyed. If I got even a paper cut, I would bleed for hours on end. I wasn't allowed to go outside at home or school, no gym class at school, no field trips, I even forgot how to ride a bike(I still can't).
This went on for about 2 years, all of which I had to go to Texas children's in Houston twice a week for blood work and different overnight medical tests. I was in there a lot.

After that two years my doctor gave us one final treatment options, either get my spleen removed, or take a series of 12 shots over 2 weeks, and if I was allergic to them I'd likely die. I had been allergic to literally every previous injection they had given me, so splenectomy it is.

I was in recovery for 2 weeks, just kind of staring at the ceiling, this was before smartphones and such. On the 2nd week a nurse said "we have a video game you can play if you'd like.", So naturally I said sure. Then they brought me a GameCube. Just the GameCube. No game. And not a wireless controller, so the controller couldn't even reach my bed if I had a game to play.

When 15 year old me tried to explain the issue here, they were pretty confused and I ended up, again, having nothing to distract myself from the pain.

I'm here for desert bus because child's play is trying to make sure that this isn't an issue anymore, and that sounds like a good cause to me.