Special-needs dad builds accessible playground baseball field complex for his son with a disability
Just like the movie, this Field of Dreams story is about a father, a son, baseball field, and a mysterious force compelling one man to create a place where dreams come true.It's a valid question standing amid the ball field, basketball hoops, boccie court, pavilion, mini golf course, and state-of-the-art special-needs playground that comprise the RWJBarnabas Health Field of Dreams.
Gavin barely survived, sustaining a traumatic brain injury, and life would never be the same for him or his loved ones, who now took on additional roles as caretakers. "When I could play sports, it was the best thing in the world, it's all I wanted to do," Grace says. "When I was about 8 years old, I was diagnosed with brain cancer.""After that, I couldn't really play sports again. It was terrible," he says. "You have to relearn how to walk, and how to talk, and how to run; years of therapy to relearn all that."
But as he traveled around giving speeches and soliciting donations, "I didn't see a 6-year-old boy," Kane says. "I saw people who were in their 50s and 60s and 70s, and they had no place to go. And that's when the wheels changed in a heartbeat. We had to build it the right way the first time, not a baseball field and a playground, a special-needs complex unlike anything in the country.
"The special-needs people are excited, but its really the caretakers," Christian Kane says. "They're the ones who are crying, hugging you, squeezing you, and thanking you for giving them a place to go."
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