Nonprofit grants wish to a 3-year-old girl in Firth

Catherine Webb pinch her daughters Sage and Clover. | Andrea Olson, EastIdahoNews.com

FIRTH — A section three-year-old woman was granted a wish: a typical shed painted pinkish and yellowish successful her backyard that she tin telephone her own.

Make-A-Wish, a nonprofit, collaborated pinch Construction Solutions Company and Home Depot to build a she shed for Sage Webb of Firth. It’s 12 by 16 and shaped for illustration a mini house. 

“A she shed is akin to a man cave, a spot that she tin go,” said Julie Thomas, nan location head for Make-A-Wish successful Idaho. “I’m honored that families will let america to measurement into their lives. They’re going done thing beautiful serious. So to unfastened nan doors and fto america successful and thief their kid find their astir heartfelt wish is an grant and a privilege.”

The she shed will enactment arsenic a therapy workplace astatine location for Sage and arsenic a comfortable spot to spell arsenic a family.

She is nonverbal and does not walk. 

“When she was 4 months old, she was diagnosed pinch epilepsy and past progressively, she was diagnosed pinch a encephalon upset called periventricular nodular heterotopia aliases PVNH,” said Catherine Webb, Sage’s mother. 

Catherine said it wasn’t until Sage was astir a twelvemonth and a half that she and her hubby Brandon recovered retired Sage had a upset called Aicardi syndrome.

“That is fundamentally nan guidelines origin of everything other that is going connected pinch her. It causes uncontrollable seizures, developmental hold and each sorts of wellness issues. She has 5 to 10 seizures a day,” Catherine said. “The life expectancy of it is beautiful debased and truthful we are happy to person her arsenic agelong arsenic we perchance can.” 

The Webb family. | Courtesy Xtreme Capture Studios

Sage’s older sister, Clover, 5, loves her and helps her connected a regular basis. During nan question and reply pinch EastIdahoNews.com, Clover held hands pinch Sage and smiled astatine her. The 2 were wearing matching pinkish outfits and bows successful their hair. 

Catherine said it has been a immense blessing to beryllium capable to person an astonishing unit travel and return nan clip to gift them nan shed. 

“We honestly ne'er thought we’d beryllium capable to person this other abstraction for therapy astatine home,” she said. 

Kelsey Huston pinch Construction Solutions Company said nan shed has a loft astatine nan apical wherever nan family tin shop items aliases wherever Clover tin play and bent out.  

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“It’s already drywalled and insulated. We’re going to overgarment it. It’s going to person flooring. It has electrical ran to it, truthful they’ll beryllium capable to plug worldly successful it. It has lights,” Huston said. 

Huston added that she loves being a portion of helping make wishes travel true.

“This is astir apt our 4th aliases 5th Make-A-Wish task that Construction Solutions has done. We emotion it. It’s nan champion activity we do,” she said. 

Crews volunteered hours to decorativeness nan project, which took complete 3 days. Other companies that helped pinch nan task see Nava’s Drywall, S&S Electric, Mountain West Rentals, and B’s Portable Toilets.

Make-A-Wish conscionable wrapped up its fiscal twelvemonth and granted 140 wishes successful nan authorities of Idaho, which is record-breaking, according to Thomas. The twelvemonth before, 127 wishes were granted. 

Thomas knows much children are eligible for a wish. 

“If anybody has questions astir Make-A-Wish, for illustration if their kid would beryllium eligible aliases a institution that wants to get involved, they should scope retired to me,” Thomas said. 

Contact Thomas by calling (208) 238-9474.

If you would for illustration to study much astir Sage’s journey, Catherine shared a blog and a Facebook group that you tin find.

Brandon pinch his daughters. He is holding a barroom that says, “Wishes do travel true!” | Courtesy Catherine Webb