November 19, 2024 • 5 mins
Meet Gideon! He has been through so much in his 13 years of life and we can't wait to make him part of our Jay's Juniors family.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Trades.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
Christmas Station is one head of point three w NIC
which A Towers, Allison and Chelsea. Welcome to Tuesday. It
is time once again for Jay's Juniors, where we give
a deserving family a trip to Walt Disney World at
Christmas time. Jays Juniors is back for its tenth year.
(00:20):
Hello hey Stephen, Yes, hey Jay Towers at wn C.
How are you?
Speaker 1 (00:25):
I'm good? How's it going?
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Doing great? I'm here with Allison and Chelsea from the
Morning Showy step Hey, Hey, and we just wanted to
talk to you a little bit about Gideon.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
All right, Well, he started off with a lot of
bad issues in the womb, and so we've always had
a little bit of challenge with him up until twenty
eighteen when they didn't know what was happening to him.
So he spent about probably three months in the hospital.
At that point. They were treating him for infections and
(00:55):
stuff that he wasn't running, fevers and whatnot, but he
started to go blind and they couldn't figure out what's happening.
So finally they tested him for cancer and they found
out he had two types of cancers all the way
up his spinal cord all the way into his neck.
And then they told us and they said he's dead.
We said, well, let's give him a chance. My wife
and I unfortunately, my wife passed away as well, just
(01:20):
over two years ago. She got COVID in past. Yeah,
so I have been a single father of twins thirteen
so but anyway, so Gideon would lived in the hospital
for a just about and fourteen months out of eighteen months.
We lived in the hospital at U of M there
and I had a Ronald McDonald room, and he would
(01:43):
go from the floor to the to the intensive care.
But double pneumonia, whatnot, that kind of stuff. He's been
on life support seventeen times in his life. But he's
actually starting to thrive. I mean, he lost his ability
to walk when he got cancer because it got on
his spine, and so he became a paraplegic at that point.
And again we eat flatlines four or five times, and
(02:06):
so we you know, we just kept kept on fighting
with him. He kept fighting. And so, needless to say,
here he is thirteen years old and he's actually in
better state now than he was before twenty eighteen. Wow,
just a fun man. I'm sitting here with him today. Unfortunately,
he was not feeling good enough to go to his
school and so had had to take off work. And
(02:29):
we're playing video games together as we speak. So and
he has a sister as well, right, correct, twin sister. Yep.
He's had over one hundred and fifty procedures in his
life at thirteen years old.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
What are some things that he likes doing?
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Again, He's a huge video game aholic because he picked
up video games while he was in the hospital, because
you of him has been so good to always have
those things available for him, you know, when they're stranded
in the in their beds and things like that. He
loves playing basketball when he can. I'll take him onto
the goal and to shoot hoops when he can because
he has electric quill chair and he has a manual,
(03:05):
but in our community he can drive his electric one around.
He absolutely loves watching movies Star Wars. This is big thing.
Marvel is a big thing. Let me think what else? See?
He loves playing Uno. We're just got a big old
blowout last Wow.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Wow, you're saying all the right things. You have no
idea Allison's obsessed.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
With right, Oh gotcha? Well, he's getting me into flips.
I don't know if you try to no flip yet,
but it gets a little more intense.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
But he's well, Steven, I feel like you're challenging me
through Gideon.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
So challenge accepted. Okay.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
I love that you said Star Wars too, because at
Walt Disney World they have Star Wars Galaxies Edge, which
has the Millennium falcon and and everything Star Wars, which
is just.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
So cool to walk around.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
It's a fourteen acre themed area. Allison, I've been there. Yeah,
I know, so I guess Stephen. The only thing left
to ask you is we'd like to take you and
Gideon and take the whole family, take you three to
Walt Disney World for Jays Juniors this year.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Well that would be uh Gideon's he's list of this.
His mouth just dropped.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Lest I love that.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
So he's given a big thumbs up and a smile.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Yeah. This is all expenses paid, So just know that
when you do this trip with us, so we fly down,
we were all together. You don't pay for food, you
don't pay for hotel, you don't pay for the park passes.
I mean everything is included. We even give you spending money.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Oh that's tremendous.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
This was a good day for him to stay homesick
from school. I don't know, You're just a really good
dad and you deserve this as much as everybody else.
Hopefully this brings a little bit of joy to you guys.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Uh it sure will. My kids have been champion. I thought,
you know, everything was going to be battened up when
they lost their mom. I didn't know how they were
going to handle it. But I'll tell you what. Both
of them have just blossomed and I couldn't be prouder
of them.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
You know, we couldn't do our Jay Junior's trips without
the incredible support of our sponsors and a huge thank
you to Jersey, Mike's, Planet Fitness, Canterbury Village, Mascow, Imagine
Kroger and of course our charitable partner Angels of Hope.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Well, thank you very much. I don't know, I don't know.
I don't know if I could put it in words
what to say, but other than they, you don't need to.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
You're all good, yep, all right, We'll see you guys soon.
We'll see you there, Steven, have a great day, all right,
you as well? Thank you you too.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Get in.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Waiting all right.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Bye,
The Trades.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
Christmas Station is one head of point three w NIC
which A Towers, Allison and Chelsea. Welcome to Tuesday. It
is time once again for Jay's Juniors, where we give
a deserving family a trip to Walt Disney World at
Christmas time. Jays Juniors is back for its tenth year.
(00:20):
Hello hey Stephen, Yes, hey Jay Towers at wn C.
How are you?
Speaker 1 (00:25):
I'm good? How's it going?
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Doing great? I'm here with Allison and Chelsea from the
Morning Showy step Hey, Hey, and we just wanted to
talk to you a little bit about Gideon.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
All right, Well, he started off with a lot of
bad issues in the womb, and so we've always had
a little bit of challenge with him up until twenty
eighteen when they didn't know what was happening to him.
So he spent about probably three months in the hospital.
At that point. They were treating him for infections and
(00:55):
stuff that he wasn't running, fevers and whatnot, but he
started to go blind and they couldn't figure out what's happening.
So finally they tested him for cancer and they found
out he had two types of cancers all the way
up his spinal cord all the way into his neck.
And then they told us and they said he's dead.
We said, well, let's give him a chance. My wife
and I unfortunately, my wife passed away as well, just
(01:20):
over two years ago. She got COVID in past. Yeah,
so I have been a single father of twins thirteen
so but anyway, so Gideon would lived in the hospital
for a just about and fourteen months out of eighteen months.
We lived in the hospital at U of M there
and I had a Ronald McDonald room, and he would
(01:43):
go from the floor to the to the intensive care.
But double pneumonia, whatnot, that kind of stuff. He's been
on life support seventeen times in his life. But he's
actually starting to thrive. I mean, he lost his ability
to walk when he got cancer because it got on
his spine, and so he became a paraplegic at that point.
And again we eat flatlines four or five times, and
(02:06):
so we you know, we just kept kept on fighting
with him. He kept fighting. And so, needless to say,
here he is thirteen years old and he's actually in
better state now than he was before twenty eighteen. Wow,
just a fun man. I'm sitting here with him today. Unfortunately,
he was not feeling good enough to go to his
school and so had had to take off work. And
(02:29):
we're playing video games together as we speak. So and
he has a sister as well, right, correct, twin sister. Yep.
He's had over one hundred and fifty procedures in his
life at thirteen years old.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
What are some things that he likes doing?
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Again, He's a huge video game aholic because he picked
up video games while he was in the hospital, because
you of him has been so good to always have
those things available for him, you know, when they're stranded
in the in their beds and things like that. He
loves playing basketball when he can. I'll take him onto
the goal and to shoot hoops when he can because
he has electric quill chair and he has a manual,
(03:05):
but in our community he can drive his electric one around.
He absolutely loves watching movies Star Wars. This is big thing.
Marvel is a big thing. Let me think what else? See?
He loves playing Uno. We're just got a big old
blowout last Wow.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Wow, you're saying all the right things. You have no
idea Allison's obsessed.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
With right, Oh gotcha? Well, he's getting me into flips.
I don't know if you try to no flip yet,
but it gets a little more intense.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
But he's well, Steven, I feel like you're challenging me
through Gideon.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
So challenge accepted. Okay.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
I love that you said Star Wars too, because at
Walt Disney World they have Star Wars Galaxies Edge, which
has the Millennium falcon and and everything Star Wars, which
is just.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
So cool to walk around.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
It's a fourteen acre themed area. Allison, I've been there. Yeah,
I know, so I guess Stephen. The only thing left
to ask you is we'd like to take you and
Gideon and take the whole family, take you three to
Walt Disney World for Jays Juniors this year.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Well that would be uh Gideon's he's list of this.
His mouth just dropped.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Lest I love that.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
So he's given a big thumbs up and a smile.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Yeah. This is all expenses paid, So just know that
when you do this trip with us, so we fly down,
we were all together. You don't pay for food, you
don't pay for hotel, you don't pay for the park passes.
I mean everything is included. We even give you spending money.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Oh that's tremendous.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
This was a good day for him to stay homesick
from school. I don't know, You're just a really good
dad and you deserve this as much as everybody else.
Hopefully this brings a little bit of joy to you guys.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Uh it sure will. My kids have been champion. I thought,
you know, everything was going to be battened up when
they lost their mom. I didn't know how they were
going to handle it. But I'll tell you what. Both
of them have just blossomed and I couldn't be prouder
of them.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
You know, we couldn't do our Jay Junior's trips without
the incredible support of our sponsors and a huge thank
you to Jersey, Mike's, Planet Fitness, Canterbury Village, Mascow, Imagine
Kroger and of course our charitable partner Angels of Hope.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Well, thank you very much. I don't know, I don't know.
I don't know if I could put it in words
what to say, but other than they, you don't need to.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
You're all good, yep, all right, We'll see you guys soon.
We'll see you there, Steven, have a great day, all right,
you as well? Thank you you too.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Get in.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Waiting all right.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Bye,
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