A Father's Day Wish: His Hero Son to Walk Again

Ricky Robinson wants one thing for Father’s Day. He wants to see his heroic, selfless son walk again. 

Robinson said his stepson, Michael Patterson, 43, saw his life forever changed on June 8 when he leapt into the swift-moving Euharlee Creek along the Silver Comet Trail in Rockmart, Ga., to save Javea Jones, a 4-year-old girl whom he had never met. Jones survived, but Patterson severed his spine after hitting the shallow creek bed, leaving him paralyzed from the shoulders down. He is also suffering from pneumonia in both lungs. 

“He is an angel, a 100 percent hero and an angel,” Robinson told FoxNews.com on Friday. “It’s going to take time, but Michael is a fighter, so yeah, he will walk again one day.”

Patterson, who recently started a contracting job, has no health insurance and is now facing thousands of dollars in medical and rehabilitative care. Relatives have created a trust for donations to help offset those costs and “thousands” of dollars have already been received, Robinson said. 

“They really have been pouring in,” he said. “We never knew how many friends Michael really did have until this happened.” 

Patterson’s 9-year-old son, Michael Cole Patterson, witnessed the accident and is so distraught that he hasn’t fully grasped the magnitude of his father’s injuries.

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I found the link to a fund that has been set-up in Patterson's behalf at the end of the Fox News article. For those interested, the Friends of Mike Patterson Trust can be found HERE.

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