UPDATE: It looks like Keshon Henderson will be home for Christmas after all. His mother, Tina Henderson tells 6 News that she got a phone call this morning from a group of people and they offered to come out and measure for the ramp. They plan to be back on Sunday to install it.
All an Omaha family wants this Christmas is to all be together in their house. The only thing keeping them apart is 42-feet.
Keshon Henderson was a point guard on the Benson basketball team. Back in September he was shot and lost one of his legs. He’s in rehab but there are some other safety issues that are making it difficult for him to join his family at home for the holiday.
Keshon needs a ramp to get into his home. The ramp needs to wrap around the house from the back to the front steps. Some contractors estimate the cost of the 42-foot ramp to be around $20,000.
“Christmas is so close there’s no way I’ve called everybody to try and get one installed and there are time frames on those types of things,” Keshon’s mother Tina Henderson tells 6 News.
She and her supporters are doing everything they can to get her son home for Christmas. “I don’t want him to feel like he’s left out of any type of celebration, it’s a tragic event that happened to him, he’s not at fault for anything and I just want to include him,” she says.
Keshon is a patient at the Madonna Rehabilitation Hospital in Omaha and getting home for Christmas has dominated his thoughts. "It's been on my mind heavy because I really want to go home," Keshon told 6 News.
Tina keeps her son strong reading from a necklace she gave him. “As you grow older you will face many challenges in life just do your best I might not be with you but know that I believe in you,” Tina says
Keshon was shot a day after he signed a basketball scholarship to play at Judson University in Illinois. His mother says the school will honor that scholarship when Keshon is ready to go to school.
(Photo: 6 News)