The horn on the bus goes beep-beep-beep beep-beep-beep.The horn on the bus goes beep-beep-beep all through the town.
On August 4th, probably the worst day of our lives, we thought June just had, you know,
a summer virus, and within 48 hours her body went into septic shock and she went
into a coma. They kind of resuscitated her, got
her stabilized, and then really from there it was 2 weeks in the PICU of her
fighting for her life. We didn't see much life from her for about, I guess, a week or
two. And then she slowly kind of started to come out of the coma, and just started
with just tiny little movements and her fingers or any little movement of her
head. We would just get overjoyed. You basically have to go through all the
developmental milestones as if you were a newborn. So, working on sitting up and
crawling, and you have to sit before you stand. So my role, as a music therapist,
is using music for non-musical goals. We were trying so hard to get her to, you
know, move her hand from literally probably a foot. Christy got out this
ocean drum that had, you know, beads in it and it made kind of a rain sound. We
could tell that June was interested in that. Sure enough, she
moved her hand to get it on the drum and to actually try to, you know, participate
and connect with it. One of the really cool things was the first time June stood
up and pushed her grocery cart to play a drum or strum the guitar with me.
Of course, Christy was doing all sorts of things to try to get her to walk from
one side of the room pushing this grocery cart and sure enough she
took, you know, her first steps with Christy jamming in the background with
her guitar.
She is doing so... Girl you go!
Yeah! Good girl!
Here we go...
As soon as Christy would stop, June would stop. So it was like the music was
making her move. We were here for about two months. We left about October first.
We've continued our rehab since then. June's been doing amazing.
She continues to progress. She's a happy, positive, funny,
little girl. Very active and energetic and we just feel like she's a miracle. We
are so thankful and feel so blessed that she is where she is today. What you've
done for us and what you've done for June is truly amazing. Our wish and our
hope is that you do this for more kids, what you did for June. The thought of
having a seriously ill child is nearly unimaginable. No one can ever prepare for
it. The impact it makes on life. The fear and
unknowns it creates and the strength our families must find. Today you are
choosing to support me, my fight to bring courage and healing to every child I see.
You are choosing to support kids like June. You are providing an uplifting
experience through music that brings joy and hope to our kids. You're bringing
distractions from harsh realities of hospitalization and the motivation to
move through sound. You are offering children a chance to walk, talk, and sing
again. Every day we feel the difference you make.