02/11/2026
This sweet family has no idea how much they mean to ours.
The summer of 2023 was one of the hardest seasons of our life.
My dad’s cancer had spread, and his kidneys were beginning to fail. He had been in and out of the hospital for months. ER visits that lasted hours… only to be told, “He’s eat up with cancer. We don’t really know what to do.”
We knew what was going on. His doctors in Tampa and New Orleans knew what was going on. But here in Savannah, we kept hitting walls. We just needed someone to treat his symptoms until we could get him back out of state.
That summer we switched kidney doctors. At his first appointment, he saw a nurse practitioner — this sweet mama right here.
And my dad, being my dad, told her he was “just fine.”
He wasn’t.
A few days later he took a turn for the worse. My mom didn’t want to go back to the ER and sit for hours just to be told nothing again. We were running out of time.
So on a Friday afternoon, I called the kidney doctor’s office.
I had no idea what I was going to accomplish — I just knew we had to tell someone the truth.
I remember pleading with the front desk:
“Please. I need to speak with his practitioner. If he doesn’t start dialysis immediately, he’s going to die. We can’t go back to the ER.”
Within ten minutes, she called me back. What doctors office does that these days?!
She listened. Really listened.
I told her the symptoms. I told her how my dad always said he was fine when he wasn’t. I told her we were scared.
And she sprang into action.
That weekend, my dad started dialysis.
She saved his life.
He did pass away a few months later from cancer. But because of her, we had more time. More conversations. More days. More moments.
When Christa inquired about a newborn session, we had no idea who she was.
Until we saw an old text thread and realized.
When she walked into the studio, we hugged her tight.
She will forever be a part of our story.
And photographing her baby — capturing this beautiful new beginning for her family — felt like such a full-circle gift.
There are people in this world who truly care.
And I will always be grateful she was one of them. 🥹🤍