Local family uses Norton Children’s Hospital’s Just for Kids transport system to save child’s life
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – A transportation service that’s been available for 45 years helps a local family save their young child’s life.
“He actually got stuck in the birth canal, and it caused him to have a stroke, which caused him to have seizures. We were transferred to Louisville and we stayed there for two weeks,” Skyye Collins’ mom Morgan Summers says.
Skyye was later diagnosed with brain damage, and needed a trip to Norton Children’s Hospital to save his life. That’s where the Just for Kids ambulance comes in.
“We got him back to Norton Children’s Hospital so that he could spend some time in our NICU with our neonatologist there. He had some seizures after he was born and then we treated those. He is now seizure free and off of his medication,” Amy Bell from Norton Children’s Transport team says.
Morgan and Skyye’s father Parker described what it was like seeing Skyye before he was transported to Louisville.
“When they came, they were super, super sweet. As a matter of fact, they let us take pictures with them and touch him before he left. He rode in an ambulance instead of a plane because they didn’t know if the weather was going to let them get back in a plane,” she says.
They’re also eternally grateful to Norton and another local charity for providing ways to make sure Skyye was able to get what he needed.
“We’re very blessed that he’s here because at one point in time we didn’t think he was going to be here. The Ronald McDonald House has always been really kind. We live two hours away from Louisville and they allow us to come and stay even for a checkup so that we don’t have to get a hotel room or have to get up at 4 in the morning to make it there by whatever time that we have to be there. We enjoyed the Ronald McDonald house too. Thank you, and we’re grateful… we’re very, very grateful and blessed,” they say.
