Easter Seals

Nine years ago my daughter became a single parent in the military. I quit my job and became the family care planner so that she could remain in the army. My daughter’s name is Staff Sergeant Jessica Choate and my granddaughter is Shauna and she’s eight, and Samuel’s seven.

Easter Seals and Veterans Count introduces an angel into your lives after the soldier deploys, she comes weekly. She brightens my day, she solves my problems, she’s my sounding board. When the ice-storm hit, my care-coordinator arranged for my freezer to be filled with food. She’s arranged for a counselor to come in and to counsel my two grandchildren on any problems. She takes them to dinner, she does everything.

Jessica knows that my care-coordinator is there, which gives her peace of mind so she can concentrate on her job over there, and her responsibility of keeping her men alive and herself alive. She knows that I’m taken care of and the grandkids are getting taken care of, and that gives her great peace of mind.