A Special Thank You

Today I wanted to send out a special thank you to three remarkable women, Sara Moore, Jenn Poirier and Megan Thomas.

On this day last year, Nina and I were on a long planned trip to Disney World with friends, Mike was at work and Matthew spent the day at school. After a day of school work with his teacher Miss Sara, Matthew had a seizure at school. Matthew’s seizures were something that Sara had plenty of experience with. We knew that he was in good hands. Sara once again proved just how good those hands were when she noticed that this seizure was not ending the same way as those that came before. She recognized the need to call 911 and began to give our sweet boy CPR until the ambulance arrived. She saved our sweet boy’s life that day.

There is a call, that no parent ever wants to get, the call that says that your child is not breathing and the ambulance is there but that is exactly the call that I got. I spoke with Megan who was (Matthew’s sitter and an invaluable part of our lives) there to pick him up and stay with him until Daddy got home. While I was too far away and feeling helpless, Megan and Sara went with Matthew to the hospital where they would be met by Jenn and Mike.

While Nina and I headed home on the red eye, all three of these amazing women, would go on to stay at the hospital with Mike, until I was able to get there. They all came to visit everyday and check on Matthew until he was able to get back to school. They showed us that they were not just people that we hired to do a specific job. They truly cared about Matthew as much as he cared about all of them. I am so fortunate to have met them and to have learned so much from them. I will always be grateful to have them in my life.