His Reveal Was Heart Wrenching…
While speaking at an event for Cincinnati Children’s Hospital in 2010, Cindy Herron sat in the audience as her husband recalled the devastating time they learned that their son had a tumor in his eye and in a serious health crisis. What transpired from their changed them all forever…
Why the hospital is special to Cindy and Glenn Braggs:
“Children’s Hospital holds a special place in my heart for myself and my wife and my son, Solomon… When I played here in Cincinnati, I would come…visit the kids here, said Braggs. I felt it was such an amazing thing that they were doing here. I would come and talk to these kids and try to give them something positive to think about. Never did I think that later on that was going to be reversed on me.
Their son, Solomon’s, health diagnosis:
“When Solomon about six months old, we found out that he had retinal blastoma, which is a tumor on the eye,” revealed Braggs. “We were able to go to Children’s Hospital, which had a … world-renowned doctor for that particular disease. We had a great experience there, and Solomon ended up having the surgery to have his eye removed, and he has a prosthetic now.
I always say he lost his eye but he gained his life. … It’s one of the hardest things I’ve ever gone through in my life…. We really didn’t know what to expect. We met a few families that had already gone through with it, and they talked to us, but … when you go through adversity like that, you think it’s the end of the world.”
