Out in front of Shriners Hospitals for Children in Tampa, a shuttle arrives to take 7-year-old Jaylen Reaves home from a doctor’s appointment.
“We’ve been back quite a bit,” said his father Patrick Calvary. “Maybe three times a week.”
It’s drive time 16-year-old Joshua Adkins knows all too well. He suffered a hip disorder as a child and remembers the stressful hours he spent in his parents' car, traveling from New Port Richey for treatments.
“Am I going to be OK? What’s the news going to be with it?” Adkins said he would ask himself.
It’s added stress no child needs and now that he’s older, Adkins is doing something about it.
On Thursday, the Boy Scout presented the hospital with 48 tablets to entertain children on the shuttle. He handed the first one over to Reaves before the shuttle left.
“I feel accomplished that I’m helping people,” Adkins said.
The project will help Adkins reach his Eagle Scout ranking.
The tablets were donated with the help of Lakeland company Tunes-N-Tint and local Kenwood representatives.