Recording studio in hospital about more than music
January 4, 2009 By MONICA RHOR , Associated Press Writer
Jalen Huckabay, right, contemplates the song she is writing as her mother Karen, left, waits outside the studio door at Texas Children's Hospital in Houston Friday, Dec. 12, 2008. The hospital has a one-of-a-kind program that gives pediatric cancer patients a chance to record their own songs. More than 116 songs have been recorded since Purple Songs began in March 2006 as part of the cancer center's Arts in Medicine program. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)
(AP) -- Just down the hall from the chemo infusion rooms at Texas Children's Hospital, Jalen Huckabay was about to slip into another world, away from the wearying regimen of pokes, prods and pinches she'd endured since being diagnosed with lymphoma in November.
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