A beautiful baby girl was born. She was everything her mother and father had ever hoped and dreamed of. She was blond-haired, blue-eyed, healthy, chubby, and sweet.
The time came when the mother and father could take the baby, Tina, home. This is like every typical family story that you hear...Tina learning how to walk and talk, learning how to ride a tricycle. Being the center of attention, laughing, crying, tormenting her cousin Marissa whom was only eight months older than she. Loving her mommy, daddy, and dog named Duke.
One day when Tina had just turned five years old, her daddy asked her if she wanted to go for a bike ride up the dirt road that they lived on. Tina's mother had left for work a couple of hours ago and there was no way that Tina wasn't going to go. She loved being with her dad and riding her bike.
So, off they went, up the street....Tina on her tricycle, her daddy on his big bike. Now the rule was, if a car came up or down the dirt road, Tina and her dad had to get off to the side of the road and get off their bikes until the car passed. They only saw 1 or 2 cars come up the road.
The third car came up the road and Tina and her dad got to the side of the road and they both got off of their bikes. When Tina tried to get back on her bike, something happened and she couldn't lift her leg to put it over the seat of her tricycle. Her daddy kept asking her what was wrong and Tina just stood there and started to cry, for some reason she couldn't answer him. She just kept trying to move, trying to tell her daddy that something was wrong and that she couldn't lift her leg. But she couldn't speak, all she could do was cry.
After about fifteen minutes of standing there with her daddy asking her what was wrong and Tina not being able to answer him, her daddy swooped her up in his arms and ran down the dirt road to their house. He took her into the living room, put her on the couch and then went to call mommy.
The next thing Tina knew, she was in a helicopter. She had never been on a helicopter before. She loved going on rides at the amusement park, but this was way different. All of a sudden, the helicopter landed and she was rushed into the hospital, men and women with masks on were taking her away from her mommy and daddy into this room with big lights overhead, then these people put a mask on her face and told her it was to make her go to sleep.
Dr. Martin came out of surgery....he just didn't know how or what to tell this little girl's parents. In the thirteen years that he has been a surgeon, he thought he had seen it all, not today.
Tina was five years old and she just had three strokes.
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