NewsRadio Savannah and our sponsor The Dewitt Tilton Group introduces you to the Armitage family and their Ronald McDonald House Of The Coastal Empire experience:
Hello, We are the Wilbur family, Larry & Velvet the parents of baby Yiannis Wilbur. Our stay at the Ronald McDonald house was truly amazing and a blessing. We are forever grateful. We could feel the love and we felt as if we were home away from home. We were welcomed and had a chance to tour the house. We were provided with three meals daily, breakfast, lunch, and dinner. We also were able to cook if we wanted to. We were even provided with snacks throughout the day. They also had little gifts for us and our new baby. Our baby boy Yiannis was born at 31 weeks in 5 days, weighing only 3 pounds. I was admitted on June 14th to Savannah Memorial Hospital and on June 16th at 5:35 PM Yiannis was here.
I had to have an emergency C-section due to severe preeclampsia which causes preterm labor. Our baby boy stayed in the hospital for 1 month and 4 days. We stayed at the RMH for about 3 weeks until our son was able to come home. Our feelings were all over the place at times, but we managed to keep hope, a smile on our face, and to always remain prayerful.
There were times where we would try to remain as calm as we could and just trust God and our extended family with positive affirmations. Overall we remained positive. We would always try to go see him at every touch time, especially at the later touch times so he and his father could do skin to skin. Our son was discharged on July 20th to go home. This was a very exciting moment and day and what we all were waiting on. Our memories of our stay and how generous the staff was and lets not forget Willow, she’s definitely awesome. Can definitely help take the stress away and place your mind at peace. Since we have been home Yiannis is growing and getting stronger daily. He is now weighing in at 15 pounds and meeting his milestones. Thank you all again for making our stay less stressful and welcoming us.
Sincerely, Larry & Velvet
How to help:
⏰ Accepting monetary donations between Now - December 12th, 2022
📍 Please deliver all cash, check, and gift card donations directly to iHeartMedia Savannah, 245 Alfred Street Savannah, GA 31408
💳Forms of donations accepted:
- Click here to make an online donation to the RMH. Add "Shop With A Cop" in memo.
- Checks made out to Ronald McDonald House with "Shop With A Cop" in memo.
- Visa, Master Card, AmEx or Target cards.
- Cash
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