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I'm Scott Berry and this is my wife, Betsy, and this is our son, Judah. Judah is almost
a year old and he was born in March of 2012 at the Niswonger Children's Hospital. We were
passing through town more or less on a job assignment with my work, and my wife, Betsy,
suddenly went into pre-term labor and we needed a hospital to go to and so Betsy had discovered
that Niswonger was available. She had passed it while going to the grocery store and we
really didn't know a lot about it but that's where we found ourselves that night that she
was in labor. That night I was 21 weeks pregnant. I went on bed rest at that point and he was
born at 23 weeks and 4 days, which is before the age of viability, but we chose to ask
the team from the NICU to intervene and do whatever they could do for him, and so, they
were able to stabilize him after he was born, and it was an up and down up and down journey
for five months. We got really close to the people in the NICU there, and they -- not
being from this area -- they became our family and our friends, and we spent pretty much
all day, every day at the hospital. It really became home, and now, after being discharged
there -- the discharge was a little hard because we had to leave everyone that we knew and
loved. We still go back and we visit a lot and I'm expecting again, so we are hoping
to stay in this area until I deliver this baby because much more comfortable the team
at niswonger and all the people who we already know and love, and trust to help us get through
another pregnancy. So as I mentioned before, we were here on what was supposed to be a
short-term job assignment with my employer, chick fi-la. I work for our home office and
I'm supposed to travel around and fill-in in restaurants and help run restaurants as
needed. We were here helping with a restaurant in Bristol when Judah was born, and obviously,
putting him in the hospital required that we were not able to travel around and chick
fi-la was so utterly supportive of our family needs and his medical needs. I had a lot of
staff from the home office and the executives and also plenty of staff and team members
from the chick fi-las in the tri cities come around to visit him while in the hospital and it
was really great to have so much support -- not just from the hospital staff and the nicu
staff but also from my employer. Then, to have Chick fi-la partner with Niswonger Children's
on the fundraising for the Radiothon was great to be a part of that as well, and we're excited
to announce how much we're able to raise for that. It's been a great opportunity to show
more of chick fi-la's commitment to being involved in the community, and not just commitment
to the community, but commitment to family values as well.