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Producerchic
Member
06-29-2004
| Tuesday, March 08, 2005 - 3:31 pm
that was a great story bean... thanks for posting it! 
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Twiggyish
Member
08-14-2000
| Tuesday, March 08, 2005 - 4:42 pm
Loved the show last night. Those kids were a riot. I admire the parents!
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Justalittlebean
Member
08-15-2003
| Sunday, March 13, 2005 - 2:44 pm
Sunday, March 13, 8/7c "Okvath Family and University Medical Center" An eight-year-old girl with cancer makes a selfless request that a children's hospital ward be made over. Extreme Makeover: Home Edition grants her wish while also secretly transforming her family's house!

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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Sunday, March 13, 2005 - 2:58 pm
Oh geez, where's my box of Kleenex? I'd better get it ready right now!
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Hippyt
Member
06-15-2001
| Sunday, March 13, 2005 - 5:03 pm
Oh,this is just heartbreaking. It's a two hour show,so it starts an hour earlier than usual.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Sunday, March 13, 2005 - 5:24 pm
Thanks for the heads up, Hippy. I would have put it on at 8.
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Hippyt
Member
06-15-2001
| Sunday, March 13, 2005 - 5:31 pm
You're welcome. I didn't know either,just got lucky and happened to turn it on.
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Needmylifeback
Member
08-14-2000
| Sunday, March 13, 2005 - 8:44 pm
Well I didn't know it started an hour earlier....didn't check here...... I tuned in to DAY 5 ... and the Hospital transformation happened right here in Tucson! ....so if someone would mind letting me know what happened that first hour... I'd be ever so grateful! (If the first hour was like the second hour I would have needed two boxes of kleenex!) I won't miss the How'd they do that tomorrow for sure!
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Hypermom
Member
08-13-2001
| Monday, March 14, 2005 - 8:29 am
I missed the first hour also. Another wonderful show. What a great thing for the Peds. ward and for the family. The having no mortgage to pay was a terrific thing for the builder to do for them.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Monday, March 14, 2005 - 9:00 am
I cried from the beginning to the end! The hospital ward turned out just so lovely. What a great place for the children who have to be there. Disney did a great job! The book that Preston wrote and the cute little book nook in the house, made me sob. The bead room made me sob. Cassandra's reaction to her bedroom, made me sob. I was a wreck!
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Justalittlebean
Member
08-15-2003
| Monday, March 14, 2005 - 9:11 am
Here are nice pictures of the hospital rooms makeover......http://www.ahsc.arizona.edu/opa/extreme/

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Scout
Member
01-20-2005
| Monday, March 14, 2005 - 11:07 am
This show can really wring the tears from you! What a sweet little girl. What I really liked about her (and the credit must also go to her family) is that she has not just let the cancer turn her into a victim of it. By helping other cancer patients, she has become pro-active instead of having to just be re-active to all the things that are happening to her. A wonderful way to change the mindset and turn an unbelievable negative into something positive.
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Hippyt
Member
06-15-2001
| Monday, March 14, 2005 - 11:24 am
Those photos are great! Thanks for posting the link.
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Hypermom
Member
08-13-2001
| Monday, March 14, 2005 - 1:58 pm
Wow! The hospital rooms are great! It's bad enough having to spend time on a ped oncology ward when they are so white and sterile, but this might help the little ones just a bit. Scout, I've found that the majority of kids that have or had cancer, want to help others.
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Landi
Member
07-29-2002
| Tuesday, March 22, 2005 - 1:10 pm
i just found out this for PCBC 2005: General Session Keynote with Ty Pennington Extreme Makeover Confidential: How We Make the Magic Wednesday, June 1 * 4:15pm - 5:15pm Open to all attendees and exhibitors. As the charismatic, high-energy team leader of the megahit series Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, Ty Pennington is the ultimate project manager, orchestrating crews of designers, contractors and hundreds of workers to rebuild an entire house in just seven days. Yet the most powerful lure of this Emmy-nominated reality show is not the construction wizardry, but the lives of deserving families that are forever changed. Join us as Ty reveals the behind-the-scenes story of these magical, emotional transformations—and pays tribute to the industry that makes them possible. i'm trying to get my boss to let me go.
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Hippyt
Member
06-15-2001
| Sunday, March 27, 2005 - 6:58 pm
<leaves a box of tissues> Great episode!!!!!!!
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Hypermom
Member
08-13-2001
| Sunday, March 27, 2005 - 10:08 pm
:::takes a few tissues from Hippy::: Another great show. It was so sad about the kid's parents dying within two months of each other. How wonderful the couple were to take them into their home. This builder paying off their mortgage is another keeper and Ford giving them all cars!
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Hereiam
Member
03-29-2002
| Monday, March 28, 2005 - 11:45 am
What I really loved was they were ALL so close and definitely seemed like one big family not two families even the way the kids acted with one another. What a fabulous couple! This show gives me hope in our world when so many others focus on the bleak. It is wonderful to hear about such nice people.
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Kep421
Member
08-11-2001
| Monday, March 28, 2005 - 4:30 pm
That's really why I watch this show Hereiam. Everyweek it makes me feel good about my fellow human beings...people out there really making a difference in other's lives... Its a nice way to end a weekend for me... and starts off my monday's with a good feeling!!!
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Scout
Member
01-20-2005
| Monday, April 04, 2005 - 7:19 am
Kep, I like that about this show, too. I missed the first half of last night's show. Can someone tell me what the family's story was? They did another amazing job on the house - really loved that backyard.
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Cousin_jake
Member
07-04-2002
| Monday, April 04, 2005 - 7:44 am
Loved the house too. The woman's husband and oldest child had been killed in a car accident the previous year. They had purchased the house because of it's age and style and the couple had been planning to renovate it but then the husband was killed.
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Scout
Member
01-20-2005
| Monday, April 04, 2005 - 8:05 am
How sad - when I watch this show, it's amazing how many people have had such tragic things happen. Thanks, Jake, for filling me in on their story.
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Spygirl
Moderator
04-23-2001
| Monday, April 04, 2005 - 9:24 am
I wanted to share this here while I'm thinking of it. I don't watch this show very often, but I got the following in an email from a friend who lives in Kansas City:
The biggest thing going on right now, at least for me, is that Extreme Makeover: Home Edition is here in Kansas City this week!!! We heard about it on Thursday and so about 5 of us went to the set that night and they were just packing up the house but we heard that demo was in the morning and the design team would be on site around 7:30. So we left at 6:30 in the morning. We got there and we got right up by the barracades right to the left of the house. We were so excited, and we waited and waited. Finally the design team came out and it was soooo exciting! We also saw (for those of you who are familiar with the show) Connie, Ed, Michael and Paige. They taped the beginning when the design team runs out to the street and gets all excited in front of the crowd and then taped when all the construction guys pile out of the truck and meet the design team and then gather around the house when Kevin Green addresses them. It was great and I will be on TV. The show is airing in 4 to 6 weeks, right now the plan is May 15. Oh yeah, I was wearing a blue light jacket and in front by the camera in the middle of the set across the street. So watch for me!!! Well, being the obsessed people, we went back on Friday night to the set in attempt to see the design crew. By this time the house was completely gone and there was just dirt everywhere that was getting hauled out in trucks. We saw Connie off the show but couldn't get her attention because it was so loud outside with all the trucks and she was across the street. But Ed was on our side so we got his autograph and got our picture with him! He has a hot accent! lol It was alot of fun. Our plan is to go back at least one more time, when the family comes home. We might go by there today. Last night I heard an update on the radio up here and the house is totally built and they were going to start roofing it, so they are on schedule. It is really exciting!
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Hippyt
Member
06-15-2001
| Monday, April 04, 2005 - 11:25 am
Wow,that is really cool! I love this show. If they came around here,I'd definitely be doing a little stalking.
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Monday, April 11, 2005 - 8:23 am
TY alert-he is on the View right now!!!
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