Make A Wish

One year ago I received a phone call that less than a month after a "simple" cath lab procedure my daughter was going to have to have open heart surgery. Well, I didn't take that too well and I got really frustrated and upset, so I decided to try and see if Sophia would qualify for a wish through Make A Wish. Well, I wasn't sure that she would qualify. I decided to go for it and sure enough we found out that she was chosen for a wish. I asked her what she wanted to do, I told her that she could meet someone, go somewhere, do something, or be something for a day. Well, it didn't take her a long time to decide and she quickly decided that she wanted to meet Felix Hernandez from the Seattle Mariners. (We'll get to our special friend tomorrow and what he has done for my daughter) What I can say about our wish grantors and our experience is that is was incredible. We talked as a family a little after the new year and I was asking Sophia what she thought about last year, with her surgeries and trips. Honest to goodness when we talked she didn't remember much about her surgeries and talked about her wish trip and all of the fun we had while in Seattle. I thank the Seattle Mariners and Felix a lot for helping Sophia get her smile back, but it never would have fully gotten there without the Make A Wish Foundation. In 2014; I plan on paying it forward and volunterring myself with Make a Wish!