After tragedy, man innovates for ailing children

Wow! What an amazing story! I know I'm an emotional wreck, but this has really touched me. It's good to know we still have good people around who will do everything they can to help others.
 
Roger Leggett and his family are awesome folks. Roger was a Post Commissioner at one time. Wish he still was. LOL The story is tragic and full of hope. This story has made national news!!!

Roger Leggett's granddaughter, Felicity, was diagnosed with a brain tumor at the age of 4 in 2011. While visiting the young girl during her treatment at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta (CHOA), Leggett and his son, Chad, saw a mother pulling her child in a wagon, struggling to also drag his IV behind. "Chad looked at me and said: 'There's gotta be a better way to do that,'" Leggett told NBC affiliate WXIA.

Chad tragically died of heat stroke just a few weeks later, but Leggett remembered that moment, which inspired him to create the not-for-profit, Chad's Bracket, which is dedicated to connecting IV poles to patients' red wagons, according to the organization's Facebook page. With help from students at Chattahoochee Technical College, Leggett has affixed IV poles to more than 100 wagons at CHOA, and is hoping to fill requests from hospitals around the country, according to WXIA. His workshop is currently based in the bed of his late son's pickup truck.
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http://www.nbcnews.com/health/kids-health/grandfather-creates-chads-bracket-attack-iv-poles-childrens-hospital-wagons-n318806
 
And here is a memorial video posted by the family on Facebook. Chad was an EMT. I have to say, this made my eyes leak. :'(

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91zYA7zU914&feature=youtu.be
 
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