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Today: Lincoln's Shot, Chapter 3 - We just have to find a way to connect

 
Tampa Bay Times
Published Dec. 18, 2018

He couldn't coo or cry. Couldn't move his mouth to smile. Three months after Lincoln DeLuna was born, he still didn't even seem to focus on his parents' faces.

They believed he was in there, that his mind was fine. He wasn't "just a vegetable," as one nurse called him.

But they had to show everyone he was worth saving.

"We can outsource his breathing and eating," his dad, Anthony DeLuna, told Lincoln's mom, Maggie Hoyle-Germann. "His brain is up to us."

Lincoln's first summer, in 2014, Maggie and Anthony got new jobs with Humana insurance, her as a social worker, him in IT. They got raises and were able to work from home.

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