This is Children's Hospital #15 in St. Petersburg. How does it compare with your local children's hospital? For starters, it is about 130 years old and it shows. This hospital treats children from the shelters and orphanages.

Many of the children who come here have lice and other illness such as hepatitis or tetanus. This is a little girl who had her head shaved to get rid of the lice. It is amazaing to me how happy these little ones can be to see someone they don't even know. Unfortuantely they receive such little compassion that they are starved for attention.

This young lady got a hold of my camera and wanted to take a picture of us together. I never got her name, but she was my shadow for the whole time I spent in the hospital.