Article: A Special Weekend, a Special Company, and a Very Special Little Boy

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Great Story! Thanks for sharing! All the best to Ben for a very successful recovery!

Amazing! Thanks for sharing!

Super story, thank for sharing!

Awesome story! Breaks my heart to hear about such innocent kids with a life threating disease. Kudos to the Sea Ray family well done!

DVACARI said:

Awesome story! Breaks my heart to hear about such innocent kids with a life threating disease. Kudos to the Sea Ray family well done!

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So, Benjamin is now in his final year of treatment and we have gotten up the gumption (and the blessing of the Docs at Duke) to begin venturing outside of a one hour radius of the hospital for any length of time like an overnight stay. We recently took advantage of this new found freedom to move our boat two hours east to Wilmington, NC and off the trailer and into a dry slip at Bradley Creek on the Intracoastal. Well, as many of you know, (especially if you are heading to the Homecoming in TN next month and/or are following his thread about the event) Captain Rusty Higgins of Sea Ray in Sykes Creek, FL has been battling weather and mechanical challenges bringing an owners yacht back home this week to the Wrightsville Beach Marine Max. Anyway, while Rusty was waging his battle, Benjamin had a little battle of his own going on all this past week as a high fever resulted in two trips to Duke for treatments. Luckily he did not have to be admitted and so we were able to bring him down here to the coast today to see Rusty before he had to head back down to Merritt Island. Here is Ben with his hero Captain Rusty. As you can see, the Captain looks like he had quite a week on the high seas, but he dropped everything he was doing to spend time with us on the Meridian 541 he was putting to bed when we finally pulled in to the slip.

Thank you Rusty. Once again you put a big smile on all of our faces, especially Ben's.

Robin,

Thank you for the update on Benjamin. I am glad he is progressing as well as all of us who met him at Yacht Expo knew he would. We've talked about Ben, you, Kim and Brody many times since last December, so I know Rusty was glad to catch up with you all. Best wishes for continued progress............