Homepage > Family

E-Mail News Alerts
Get breaking news and daily headlines.
Browse all e-mail newsletters
Related To Story
Gwendolyn Campbell will soon be reunited with her young sons.

Mother To Be Reunited With Special Needs Children

POSTED: 7:29 am CDT September 8, 2005
UPDATED: 7:45 am CDT September 8, 2005

Gwendolyn Campbell hasn't seen her two young sons since they were airlifted off the rooftop of their flooded home in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina struck.

Allowing her sons to go ahead of her, Campbell had to wait for another helicopter to airlift her, so she was separated from her 2-year-old son, who is autistic, and her 11-year-old son, who is bipolar and suffers from Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.

Campbell, along with thousands of other evacuees, then had to leave New Orleans, not knowing where she was going and not knowing where her sons were.

Campbell ended up at Lackland Baptist Church in San Antonio, hundreds of miles from her loved ones.

But on Tuesday, she got some good news -- her sons and their grandmother are safe at a shelter in Thibodeaux, La.

Anxious to be reunited with her sons, Campbell made a plea on KSAT 12 News to help her get reunited with her sons.

On Wednesday night, her prayers were answered -- a viewer who saw the news story volunteered to drive Campbell to Louisiana to bring her sons to San Antonio.

The viewer, an emergency medical technician from Marion, is a pediatric nurse who has worked with special needs children like Campbell's.

"Thank you so much," Campbell said to KSAT 12 News reporter Jessie Degollado, who reported on Campbell's situation.

Campbell plans to leave Friday for the reunion.

Links We Like
Looking for a new way to energize your garden? Find out why when it comes to flowers, purple is the new red. More

If you’re feeling like you’re not doing what you’re supposed to, take this quiz and take control of your working destiny. More

Learn what to expect in your menopause years and, more importantly, what adjustments will ease the transition. More

All The Resources You'll Need To Understand And Manage Assisted Living For Your Aging Parent.  More

Like online video? Then you'll love Now See This.

Links We Like includes a selection of information, tools and resources from our partners and sponsors.

Sponsored Links

Power Search