Georgia man paralyzed after saving 4-year-old from drowning
My dad, one of my two heroes growing up, taught me there are those who say and those who do. When a helpless 4-year-old girl was in danger of drowning, Michael Patterson proved himself to be very much in the latter as he dove from a dam in northwest Georgia to save little Jevaeh Jones. Read on for Mike’s inspiring act of heroism, how he had put himself in harms way for another stranger just two weeks earlier and what his friends are doing to help raise money to fund his mounting medical bills as his selfless reaction has left him paralyzed from the chest down.