CHICAGO (AP) – Workers building a new children’s hospital in Chicago are supposed to do stretching exercises at the site every morning.
The exercises are for their safety, and on Friday, they’re getting a special coach – an 11-year-old spina bifida patient will lead the exercises.
Aaron Holliday was born with the spine condition and is a longtime patient at Children’s Memorial Hospital. He enjoys wheelchair basketball, excels in school, and created a special routine that he’ll demonstrate with the workers.
The impromptu gym class takes place at the construction site for the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital. It will replace the old Children’s and is being built on Northwestern University’s medical campus just north of the downtown Loop.
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