Help Sal get wheels!

August 28th 2018, the date that brings us so much joy and pain. A healthy pregnancy until the end. A week and again a few days before my due date his heart was not elevating so I was induced to give birth to my sweet boy. Salvatore James 3:39 pm 6 pounds 7 oz 18.5 inches long laid on my chest lifeless. Skin to skin led to me staring at a white ceiling as time stood still waiting to hear his cry. He gets sent away to the nicu for “low blood sugar” soon to find out it’s not that at all. Later that night I held my baby as I watched him look at me and stop breathing, my mother in law sat him up to get him to cry thinking maybe sleep apnea. Later that night the doctors rushed to grab me and my wife to walk into him being intubated and to tell us he’s having seizures he has to be transferred to another hospital due to not having a neurologist on sight. We decided the best option would be CHOP. I checked myself out of the hospital as me and my wife went along. Two days go by and it’s now time for an mri the seizures at this point are not under control medication after medication is being handed to us to make a decision to try or not. After the mri all the doctors gathered with us and told us our little boy has global brain damage from a week prior to birth the cord must have wrapped he lost oxygen it unwrapped he started breathing but the damage was already done. At that moment they told us our baby probably wouldn’t breathe on his own and if that was the case what is his “quality of life”. Me and my wife fell to the floor in pain. Our families then joined us in a meeting to speak about the good, bad and worst case scenario. Fast forward my baby my strong strong boy is striving in his own way. This lifeless baby we didn’t think would walk is walking with a gait trainer( medical walker) speaking with an eye gaze device which is controlled by his eyes to tell us what he wants, sitting up with assistance and if you’ve met him just the most lovable little boy. He has had 4 surgeries is tube Fed has had more than 7 admissions to chop and has spent the last three years of his life completing therapy 6 days a week multiple times a day with multiple therapists that have become family to us. At a few months old he was diagnosed with cerebral palsy from his brain injury and requires a wheelchair for transportation. At this time we are requesting help by donation or sharing this post to help us get a wheelchair van to safely take him to school, doctors, additional therapies and anywhere he loves to go.