FWrestling/Child's Play: Jay's Story
Please take a minute to read a note from Jamar Short, a long-time handler in FWO, CSWA and EPW, about how his family has been affected by one of the hospitals Child's Play supports:
Brooklyn Kennedy Short was born prematurely on January 17, 2009, at 29 weeks, weighing two pounds, 8 ounces. As most people know, my second daughter, Joy was born at 24 weeks, and was one pound, five ounces, so the fact that my wife had another premature child didn't come as a shock or surprise to our family. What happened afterwards did. Joy – by the grace of God – grew up to be a perfectly normal little girl. Most of the issues that premature babies suffer from, through prayer, and good fortune, missed our baby girl, so naturally we expected the same recovery from Brooklyn, but we didn't.
Brooklyn was born at a small hospital in Milledgeville, Georgia and shipped to the Macon Medical Center in Macon, GA where they kept her for close to three months. One of the things that I noticed was that the staff there didn't seem to care, and always made us feel like we were a burden, whenever we would call or come to see our child. Another issue that I had, was that I'd see things – like her head growing extremely large in a short period of time – that didn't seem quite right, and would be told by doctors that it's a category one, something or another and that we need not to worry, however, whenever she would be transported to Children's Healthcare of Atlanta to see the doctors who would perform her surgeries, they'd inform us that she was in desperate need of a blood transfusion, and that the issues that were so small and of zero importance in Macon, GA were severe and required immediate attention in Atlanta.
I thank God for Children's Healthcare of Atlanta. They performed two successful surgeries on my daughter, one being a major heart surgery with three ailments that have never been seen at the same time, in one child. Brooklyn is on the recovery trail, and she's functioning like a normal baby girl, albeit a little behind, and I think a large part of it is prayer, love, more prayer, and the good ladies and gentlemen of Children's Healthcare of Atlanta.
Thank you Chad for raising awareness, thank you for caring, and thank you for reaching out to me to tell my family's story. There are children that stay in these facilities for six to seven months out of a year, and every donation allows them the opportunity to participate in something that allows them to escape the sad, unfair and sometimes cruel reality of life.
God bless you.
Your boy,
Jay
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