Raising children is no easy task, there are so many things to teach them in order to help them succeed in life.
One of the main things children learn to do is to walk.
But what happens if your child has boundaries in the way of their learning?
For the Getty family, their youngest son, William, was born 23 weeks premature and, due to this, was born with multiple health conditions.
William has quadriplegic spastic cerebral palsy and has spent much of his life in a wheelchair.
His parents could see, however, that the boy really wanted to learn to walk, so they looked into different ways to make that happen.
One interesting idea they found was to construct their own walking support beams out of PVC pipes.
They did their research and found exactly what they needed and all the right measurements, then made their way to their local Lowes.
The family was in the PVC pipe aisle of the store when a hardworking employee approached them.
Dave Urban was walking down the aisle when he came across the group of 5 and asked if there was anything he could do to help them.
Jessica and Mark, William’s parents, told Dave what they were planning on doing and he immediately knew he wanted to be the one to make this family’s dreams a reality.
He took his time, to ensure the family got exactly what they needed, he even cut the pipes himself and built the bars so William could test them.
Dave looked on as the little boy pulled himself out of his wheelchair and began walking with the help of the bars.
Jessica remembers seeing the look on Dave’s face as William walked and recalls that his eyes were full of tears.
Dave says that he felt a real sense of pride at seeing William begin to walk with the help of his contraption.
After everything in the store worked out, the Getty family took apart the bars to purchase them before bringing them home and setting them up.
And with only 1 day of practice, William is now able to pull himself up out of his wheelchair and walk all the way to the end of the bars.
Not only can he walk forwards, but the boy can now also move from side to side.
He has a look of courageous determination on his face whenever he is practicing his walking, and his beaming smile is full of pride when he manages to make it to the end all by himself.
He now has somewhere to practice every day, and the unit can easily be added on to and built up for when he gets taller.
Walking into work that day, Dave didn’t think he would have such an incredible impact on anyone.
This family, however, are extremely grateful to him.
“It was just a kindness that touched us and really meant the world to us.” Jessica says, smiling at her son.
Meet Dave and William, and watch William walk, in the video linked below.
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