Two-Year-Old Gets Life Saving Medical Monitor

Both of Mandy Jackson's kids are familiar with emergency rooms and go to therapy every day. Her two-year-old daughter Faith has several forms of seizures, doctors don't know why they're progressing, but if she's not carefully monitored she could stop breathing. That's why Jackson is doing everything she can to save her daughters life.

Mandy Jackson has a lot on her hands raising two kids on her own especially when you consider their medical history.

Four-year-old Wayne has Aspergers syndrome, Celiac disease and chronic asthma. Two-year old Faith has 18 total diagnoses. The most deadly of which are three different forms of seizures.

Jackson explains, "Almost every time she falls asleep she has seizures once she hits deep sleep mood she starts seizing and the last seizure she had last Thursday she stopped breathing for 5 minutes."

Recently one of Faiths doctors recommended a home seizure monitor that detects seizures and the loss of breathing, but Jackson adds, "The monitor itself is a $600 monitor and the insurance said any monitor with a seizure diagnoses they will not cover. It doesn't matter what kind of monitor it is."

So Jackson started looking for help online. That's where she found "Wish Upon a Hero." She decided to sign up and ask for any help she could get not knowing her wish would be granted in just days.

"I've never meet this lady she doesn't know my kids nothing about us than it was like the very next day she actually called me and said I got a hold of the company and they're donating the monitor. I just started crying," Jackson says.

Thursday the monitor came in the mail.

Wayne says, "I'll keep Faith safe." As Jackson reads the instructions, "Place it under the mattress within the chest area across the bed and secure it and start monitoring."

Jackson is now an ambassador to the organization hoping she can pay it forward helping other families like hers.

"I see her running and I see her acting like a kid, but it really makes you think she is not she is my miracle child and just knowing that my baby is going to be here when I wake up in the morning and that's my biggest worry right now. Is she still going to be the little girl who fell asleep," Jackson says.

Although the Jacksons got the seizure monitor its bitter sweet because today, Mandy also had to quit her job. The physical therapy facility Faith went to says she needs round the clock nursing care they can't provide to anyone under age 18.

To contact Mandy Jackson email her at: Mommy2wf@yahoo.com
Or click on the link under the picture to learn more about "Wish Upon A Hero."