Kevin Everett: What We Learned

Kevin Everett: What We Learned 

Over the past few months the story of Kevin Everett has touched millions of people throughout the world. But now, months later, what have we really learned?

Was this just a story of an amazing recovery? Was it something more?

Before I get to that, let me start off by talking about the people that made Kevin’s story possible.

There is Dr. Andrew Cappuccino, an orthopedic surgeon who put his career on the line to help save Kevin’s life. He used “cold therapy”, an unproven spinal practice, to treat Kevin’s injury.

We have Kevin’s mother, Patricia Dugas, who watched her sons devastating hit. Then days later took a 1500 mile flight to watch her son’s recovery. Kevin was put into a chemically induced coma for 2 days, with Patricia never leaving his side.

Then that leaves Kevin, a lifelong athlete, who watched his career end on one tackle. A man who couldn’t walk for months, but was thanking God for how blessed he was.

So now months later what have we really learned?

We learned that there really are selfless people out there, who will go above and beyond for another. People that can look past the risks to do what they think is right.

That a mother’s love could very well be the reason a “miracle” took place last September. We learned how brave a mother has to be, to sit and watch her son unable to move, but yet still have the courage to be at his side.

We learned that athletes are everything they are brought up to be. Self made individuals who strive to do whatever they put their minds too, either scoring touchdowns or learning to walk again.

But most importantly, now we know that this never was a story of Kevin teaching himself how valuable life is. This was Kevin teaching us how we should all be living our lives, thankful for today and anticipating tomorrow.