Bows Put Smiles On Faces Of Sick Children

FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) - It started with a simple act of kindness. A North Texas nurse just wanted to make a sick child feel a little bit better. But now, her work has blossomed into something beautiful, touching hundreds of lives across DFW every month.

And it all began with a single bow.

Amy Ramirez first learned how to make a bow nine months ago, for a friend of a friend whose daughter lost her hair to chemotherapy. "Never had a daughter," Ramirez said. "Didn't even know how to make bows, I just taught myself how to do it."

The bows are not easy to make, which is why they are both a work of art and heart.

Now, Ramirez is making close to 500 bows each month. "I just thought, you know, if she wants bows, there are probably a lot of other little girls that would like them, too," Ramirez said. She quit her nursing job back in December and is practically making bows full-time now. "It's the most fun job that's not really a job."

As the bows multiplied, the idea grew. For every bow that Ramirez sold, she would donate one to a child in the hospital for free. "There's no catch. They're just free," Ramirez said. She drops them off at the hospitals once every month, handing them off to "anybody who treats sick children."

It does not matter what illness the child is battling, or the age of the child. The bows are simply intended to bring smiles to the faces of little ones. "Just knowing that some remote part of their day is happy," Ramirez said.

"The real thing I like about bows is because they're cute and because everybody thinks I'm pretty," said an overjoyed 7-year-old Skylar Ayala.

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