A mom and dad in Tennessee has been called “angels on Earth” by filling their four walls with children who have complex medical conditions.
Caleb and Ruchala Bone were just at a district court to seal the adoption of their fourth child, Isabella, who like their biological son Griffin, was born with a heart condition and has spent much of her early life in a hospital.
It was Griffin’s early travails that made the couple decide that the big family they always wanted would be filled with kids like Griffin that needed that extra degree of care and had no one around to give it to them.
Griffin needed open-heart surgery at just 3 months old, and the family spent a lot of time in and out of Vanderbilt children’s hospital where they learned how many kids in the foster system who have complex medical issues.
Whether through a belief in god or simply at the urging of their own moral compass, they decided to do something about it, and in 2022, adopted a little boy named Maurice who needed a kidney transplant. In a report filmed by News Channel 5, little Maurice can be seen happy and healthy, and tramping about the corridors of the court with his new siblings.
The Bones have now either fostered or adopted four children with complicated medical situations, reports Forrest Saunders for Channel 5, many of whom through a foster program called Youth Villages, whose director Suzanne Jones called the couple “angels on Earth.”
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“They are just the best kinds of people,” she said. “Foster parents have to go through training at the hospital, so sometimes that can be daunting. They have to go through the full medical training to know how to care for their medically needy child.”
Isabella, for example, came to the couple at just 5-months-old, having already received open-heart surgery. The ongoing medical care is taken care of through the state’s TennCare program, and the Bones are eligible for a foster parent stipend and other assistance as well.
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“I don’t know if we’d say we feel chosen or we’re the right people,” Ruchala told Channel 5, “but we said yes,”
To watch a video of the story, visit News Channel 5’s website here.
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