While the doctors predicted him only a few hours of life, he had a new breath thanks to the voice of his mother. In the columns of Essex Live, she explained the emotion she felt when she noticed that she brought the desire to live to her son.
It’s worthy of a miracle. Professional musician Jennifer Osborn said singing for her dying son was the hardest thing of her life as she performed on stages in front of thousands of people. Whereas his son was nine years old, Jake, he was at the end of his life. Only, he got a second wind when he heard his mother sing the song to him A Million Dreams from The Greatest Showman. While receiving palliative care at a children’s hospice while battling TBCK syndrome, a rare genetic condition that affects brain development, he straightened up when he heard his mother sing.
“I looked at the nurse and said ‘what am I doing?’ because I was so scared to be there“Jennifer told Essex Live. “I was really scared to be there, and I was so ashamed that I cried. They took the BiPap machine away from her and she said to keep singing for him.” “He took this big deep breath and it kind of brought him back. The doctor came back and she just put her stethoscope on her chest and couldn’t believe it“, thus continued the mother of the family still moved by what she lived with her son. “Everybody kind of said it was my singing that brought him back and kept him fighting.”
The song allowed him to live another 11 months
“So it was really adorable and we were able to have it another 11 months with us, which was really very nice“, said Jennifer Osborn again. The mother of six children also explained that another of her sons, three-year-old Jimmy, also suffered from this terrible disease, caused by a genetic mutation generally carried by both parents. Today, looking back, she realizes that she probably witnessed a miracle with her son thanks to the song.
“He literally had 11 months of being a kid again without having face masks or breathing tubes. So for 11 months he lived the way he wanted to live and I don’t know how he did it..” But the disease eventually took over and Jake finally breathed his last on September 14, 2022. The song that the mother of the family had sung to him eleven months earlier had been the first played during his funeral. mourning, Jennifer Osborn wishes to keep the memory of her little boy always in a good mood who loved “turn tears into laughter“.