The parents of a 7-year-old boy with cerebral palsy are crediting their heroic son for saving their lives. Hearing an ominous beeping sound while his family slept, the young boy, who is wheelchair-bound, crawled into his parents’ bedroom to warn them.
As it turned out, the beeping was coming from their carbon monoxide detector. The house had a gas leak, originating from the stove, and no one was aware of it.
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The Martinez family firmly believes that brave Michael saved their lives.
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Diagnosed with cerebral palsy, Michael cannot walk unassisted and relies on a wheelchair, occasionally a walking frame, to get around. However, he admitted that “I don’t want to be in a wheelchair.”
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Angie laments the ways in which her son can’t join in with his peers at school. “Whenever I take him to school the kids stare at him,” she explained. “He wants to play, and he wants to run like the other kids.
“We have our moments where we … Michael and I just cry and just hold each other,” she shared.
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After hearing of Michael’s heroics, said Evelyn, the 7-year-old’s school teachers reached out to the news media to cover his story. Since then, Angie has received numerous messages from good Samaritans wishing to contribute to the family’s fund.
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