(WXIA) Roger Leggett was powerless. Four years ago, he suffered heartbreak, more than one heart should have to bear.
First, his then-4-year-old granddaughter Felicity, was diagnosed with a cancerous brain tumor.
“She’s tough. She’s gone through stuff I would never want to go through,” he said. “She’s done surgery, chemo, radiation.”
Just weeks after his granddaughter’s diagnosis, Roger’s only son Chad, a 24-year-old ambulance driver for Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, died of heat stroke while working at the family’s deer camp.
Part of the healing for Roger’s immense grief was a new project — with the red wagons used at Children’s.
He was inspired during one of those powerless periods of waiting at the hospital. Felicity was in brain surgery. Chad was still with him. Heading down the hall, they saw a woman trying to wheel her son into the elevator in the red wagon with his IV pole following behind.
“The lady was carrying her child into this elevator and almost dumped the IV cart on the child that has obviously just had surgery. Chad looked at me and said ‘There’s gotta be a better way to do that,'” Leggett said.
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