A 15-year-old girl battling Cerebral Palsy had an ear-to-ear smile on Thursday when she had a special visitor at the New Mexico hospital where she is recovering from a painful surgery. The visitor: Her boyfriend, Daniel.
India Brainard is recovering from a difficult surgery earlier this year in Boston, and ended up spending more than eight weeks in the hospital. She now is in a different hospital in New Mexico where she continues to recover, but is suffering from an unexplained pain.
In a video India’s father, Donnie Brainard, recorded on his cell phone, he asks his daughter who she would like to see today.
‘So if you could see anybody today, who would you want to see? Daniel?’ Brainard asks from behind the camera.
India, meanwhile, is sitting in her wheelchair with her eyes closed.
Little did she know that Daniel was being pushed into the room in his wheel chair – Daniel, Brainard explains to ABC News, is ‘equally disabled.’
‘Gosh, wouldn’t that be amazing if Daniel were to show up today?’ Brainard continues as Daniel is being pushed into the room.
That’s when Brainard turned his daughter’s wheelchair so she could see Daniel – and her face lit right up.
India smiles as she repeats Daniel’s name over and over again as the young couple reach to touch each other’s hand.
‘I told you he was going to come and see you!’ Brainard says as he watches his daughter beaming at the sight of her boyfriend.
When India sees Daniel she starts humming ‘da-da da-da’, which her father presumes means wedding bells – at which point he jumped back into the conversation.
‘No, you guys can’t get married,’ he jokes. ‘No “da-da da-da”‘
Last week, India had another special visitor when her sister came to visit her in the hospital after she’d been brought back to New Mexico from the hospital in Boston. The two sisters hadn’t seen each other in nearly two months.
‘When she saw her, she went running up,’ Brainard told ABCNews.com. ‘India got big tears in her eyes. She calls her ‘Sissy’ and said “Sissy, Sissy, Sissy” over and over again in a real high-pitched voice.’
