WEBVTT NOTE language:en-US NOTE Confidence: 0.8994470834732056 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:03.111 1991 I was robbed on my front porch going in NOTE Confidence: 0.8994470834732056 00:00:03.180 --> 00:00:03.800 my house. NOTE Confidence: 0.5777360200881958 00:00:03.960 --> 00:00:05.618 I tried to run into my car boat and he NOTE Confidence: 0.5777360200881958 00:00:05.661 --> 00:00:07.800 shot me when the bullets been right in my kidney. NOTE Confidence: 0.588345468044281 00:00:08.240 --> 00:00:09.120 My left kid in the hill. NOTE Confidence: 0.841987133026123 00:00:09.120 --> 00:00:09.960 My name is Melvin. NOTE Confidence: 0.7290298342704773 00:00:10.480 --> 00:00:12.880 I'm a dialysis patient at DaVita. NOTE Confidence: 0.8511902689933777 00:00:19.520 --> 00:00:22.464 The feelings they had was crazy because I didn't know NOTE Confidence: 0.8511902689933777 00:00:22.520 --> 00:00:23.520 what dialysis was. NOTE Confidence: 0.9406505823135376 00:00:23.520 --> 00:00:26.675 Meeting Melvin, he had already been through a lot in NOTE Confidence: 0.9406505823135376 00:00:26.736 --> 00:00:27.040 life. NOTE Confidence: 0.8418390154838562 00:00:27.120 --> 00:00:31.360 It was hard for him to adjust to dialysis. NOTE Confidence: 0.9536895751953125 00:00:31.480 --> 00:00:32.280 We talked about. NOTE Confidence: 0.8293910026550293 00:00:32.280 --> 00:00:35.288 I told him we all like family here that we're NOTE Confidence: 0.8293910026550293 00:00:35.355 --> 00:00:37.160 going to take good care of. NOTE Confidence: 0.6666085124015808 00:00:37.159 --> 00:00:38.881 Him I found out because she's someone I can go NOTE Confidence: 0.6666085124015808 00:00:38.918 --> 00:00:39.480 to and talk to. NOTE Confidence: 0.8689554929733276 00:00:45.920 --> 00:00:48.000 When I found that my girlfriend was pregnant. NOTE Confidence: 0.8816179037094116 00:00:48.080 --> 00:00:48.840 Oh yes, I was. NOTE Confidence: 0.6615057587623596 00:00:48.840 --> 00:00:51.323 Scared and nobody was going to do with this new NOTE Confidence: 0.6615057587623596 00:00:51.375 --> 00:00:51.639 baby. NOTE Confidence: 0.8215724229812622 00:00:51.640 --> 00:00:54.563 And I just sat down and we we talked the NOTE Confidence: 0.8215724229812622 00:00:54.636 --> 00:00:55.440 whole time. NOTE Confidence: 0.7762736082077026 00:00:55.480 --> 00:00:57.454 We calmed him down and I told him, you know, NOTE Confidence: 0.7762736082077026 00:00:57.498 --> 00:00:58.799 everything going to work out. NOTE Confidence: 0.8272203207015991 00:00:58.880 --> 00:01:01.363 That meant the world to me, that sunshine sat there NOTE Confidence: 0.8272203207015991 00:01:01.412 --> 00:01:03.360 and listened to everything I had to say. NOTE Confidence: 0.6941899061203003 00:01:03.480 --> 00:01:03.560 The. NOTE Confidence: 0.9076510071754456 00:01:03.560 --> 00:01:08.156 Baby was born in June of that year, but unfortunately NOTE Confidence: 0.9076510071754456 00:01:08.243 --> 00:01:12.839 in October, the baby mother passed away unexpectedly. NOTE Confidence: 0.6383925676345825 00:01:13.440 --> 00:01:16.360 So now I just leaves Melvin with a newborn baby. NOTE Confidence: 0.6971153616905212 00:01:16.400 --> 00:01:17.280 He's coming here. NOTE Confidence: 0.6553028225898743 00:01:17.319 --> 00:01:19.005 You know, he was like, I don't know what to NOTE Confidence: 0.6553028225898743 00:01:19.044 --> 00:01:19.279 do it. NOTE Confidence: 0.6350271105766296 00:01:19.680 --> 00:01:21.961 And I was just, we was telling him, you know, NOTE Confidence: 0.6350271105766296 00:01:22.011 --> 00:01:24.901 that you call your pediatrician like sure, you know, call NOTE Confidence: 0.6350271105766296 00:01:24.951 --> 00:01:25.560 this number. NOTE Confidence: 0.5247417688369751 00:01:25.600 --> 00:01:27.309 My friends, my family and tell my man we know NOTE Confidence: 0.5247417688369751 00:01:27.347 --> 00:01:27.879 how you do it. NOTE Confidence: 0.596271276473999 00:01:28.480 --> 00:01:31.353 You know, from the shooting to Mason, we don't know NOTE Confidence: 0.596271276473999 00:01:31.410 --> 00:01:33.776 how you do it, but Vita has been there for NOTE Confidence: 0.596271276473999 00:01:33.833 --> 00:01:34.960 me mentally and the. NOTE Confidence: 0.8066955208778381 00:01:40.400 --> 00:01:43.734 Sunshine means everything to me and Mason from the day NOTE Confidence: 0.8066955208778381 00:01:43.795 --> 00:01:46.512 I met her up until now, the Vita team helped NOTE Confidence: 0.8066955208778381 00:01:46.574 --> 00:01:49.044 me and ways I don't, I don't know how to NOTE Confidence: 0.8066955208778381 00:01:49.106 --> 00:01:49.600 express. NOTE Confidence: 0.893671989440918 00:01:49.600 --> 00:01:51.780 They have been so wonderful for the past 10 years NOTE Confidence: 0.893671989440918 00:01:51.824 --> 00:01:53.159 and the last seven with Mason. NOTE Confidence: 0.7601032257080078 00:01:53.200 --> 00:01:54.399 You know I don't, I don't know what I'd do NOTE Confidence: 0.7601032257080078 00:01:54.428 --> 00:01:54.799 without them. NOTE Confidence: 0.7440724968910217 00:01:54.800 --> 00:01:57.320 They my life, like I said in my life.