This is what led a 77-year-old woman to adopt her great-grandson.

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Call 866-WINASIA or to see chickens and other animals to donate, go to CritterCampaign.org. Kay in Kansas. Good morning, Kay. How are you feeling? Good morning. I'm feeling great.

I said my situation is a little bit different than most people. I'm 77 and I have adopted a three-year-old. I've had him for three years. Now is this a grandchild or something? He's a great-grandchild. You've adopted your great-grandchild?

Yes, he's mine. What's the story behind that? His parents, his mother was my granddaughter, beautiful girl, and got caught up into drugs. I put her into a woman's home to get her off of drugs, got her out. And she met this guy in church who was a druggie and he was a mess. And next thing I know, they're together and then they have two babies.

And now nobody knows where she's at after they took the children away. My daughter has the girl and I have the little boy. And I feel like God gave him back to me. Many years ago when abortion started, I had an abortion. I was married at the time and he didn't want any children. And I had an abortion. And I feel like God gave him back to me to show me what I had missed in this little guy. And I know one day I will meet the other child. And now I'm a nurse and I'm waiting to get a job in life care to talk to ladies and young girls that want to have abortion. Well, I think that is extraordinary. And I think that at 77 years old, Kay, I got to tell you, you're pretty ambitious, taking on a three year old and you're going back to work as a nurse. You are some kind of 77 year old, aren't you? You live in Kansas.

I want to know what's in the water in Kansas that you got that kind of strength. Now, let me ask you a logistical question. What's the plan for this child if something happens to you? Because at 77, I hope you live to be 107, but what's the plan for this child? He will go live with my daughter. Matter of fact, I made his name when we adopted.

I put his name as her last name because I didn't want she's got the little girl and I didn't want him to be have different names and how kids can be well that's your sister was her name this or that. He calls me Mommy. I have him in a Christian daycare.

He's learning about God. I have him in a Christian daycare and the kids were saying, Well, you don't have a mommy or daddy. And he come to me and said that. And I told him, I said, His name's Gabriel. I said, Gabe, I am your mother on paper. I am your mother and I will always be your mother and so you can call me mommy if you want to. So now he calls mommy. And I keep introducing him to his Heavenly Father. Now it's going to be a little bit weird, Kay, because when he goes to be with your daughter, that's his sister and his grandmother at the same time.

Right. And so that's going to get a little bit weird. So you're going to have to your family tree is going to require a little maybe one of those dry erase boards that you're going to have to do some creative writing on the family tree for Gabe when he gets a little older, but I think you got time to deal with that.

I'm trying to figure out how to, because he's been down at we, my daughter lives in Naples, Florida, and I have been there with him, and it's a little different, because she, my daughter loves him, but she's not close to him she doesn't know and I, you know, I live in Kansas she lives in Naples and it's hard for me to get down there to let them be together. But I've been there a couple times and say, like a month or so, and it is a little difference for Gabriel because he's all boy. He's all boy, and everybody that sees him or talks to him, he, they can't believe he's only three years old, because he, he has been blessed by being smart he knows everything.

I mean, when they talk to him they look at me to hold is he knows eight, three and I can't believe it they think he's five or six. Well, that regardless of how this works out. And I think you guys have done something extraordinary in the midst of a very, very, very complex set of circumstances and drugs get involved.

It screws everything up. I mean, it just truly does, and the family has to kind of pinch it the best that you can and you've done this and God also promises that he will restore what the locust have eaten, and that's what he's done with your situation with your abortion many years ago, and that he's provided a promissory note of how he is going to redeem even that because that's what he does. He reaches into the most horrific things and pulls out redemption in ways that we just can't even process. And this, and Gabriel is a promissory note to an ultimate redemption that God will do when you're in his presence. And you guys have done the best that you can with it with a very, very complex set of circumstances. So as long as you keep introducing him to his Heavenly Father, then regardless of what happens with his biological mother or his grandmother or anybody else, as long as he is anchored in his Heavenly Father, he's going to be okay.

And it sounds like that's what you're doing. Yes, I have a son, 50, that says, Mom, I will take him, you know, if him and his wife would take him, if he's a teenager, they can take him and do things with him, and he loves his uncle very much. Well, he's got a family that loves him. You've got a lot of family around that really wants to hug and love on this kid and care for him, and it's a family thing. We're going to take this kid in. We know this one, your granddaughter evidently just really got messed up with drugs, and the rest of the family seems to step in. I've got a buddy of mine who did that with his niece's twins, and he's done that and taken care of her sons and adopted them as his own. And so when you get drugs involved, and that's one of the reasons we add the addict alcoholic component for caregiving into this show, because we understand what it does to the family. And you've been functioning as a family caregiver.

Here you are, 77 years old. Now, when are you going to start work in your nursing program with counseling? I am waiting for, they're very strict, and they have sent out three letters that my, I can't even think, the reference letters. I've never had that before because I was a hospice nurse, and I've never had that before where they sent those out, and they had to fill them all out.

And the last one just got in, so I'm waiting. I'll go before a council of life care people, and they'll interview me there. And I'm really excited about it. I think this is what God wants me to do because I've been praying, God, I need to do something, because I gave them daycare all day, and I'm just here at the house. And thank God, I'm very healthy.

I've never had any heart attacks, nothing. How many hours will you be working at this thing? I told them I probably would just work a couple, about three days a week. I want to go into the van and go and do the ultrasounds and be able to speak to the young women or the older women about God and tell them what I have gone through with it. And how God can forgive them, and He will forgive them if they will just listen and keep this baby.

To me, it's murder, and don't murder your child. But when you do this, and when you go before this committee, and they talk to you, and you have to kind of make your case on why you're a person for this, I believe that you're going to be calm, and you're going to be matter of fact. Yeah, there will be some emotion with it. I don't think you can do any of this without deep feelings and emotion, but at the same time, you sound very anchored in the redemptive work of Christ in this, and so when you face these folks and do this, we'll just continue to pray. This network will, and the people that are listening right now, you're on the front lines. You're going into something that is incredibly painful and incredibly divisive in this country. Here you are doing this at 77 years old, so I want to give a little bit of encouragement to all you 77 year olds out there. Here's Kay out there.

She's taking on a toddler and the abortion industry. And so, you know, when you talk about a mighty warrior of God, Kay, I'm telling you, you got stern stuff in you. And what I gotta ask before we go to the break before we go to the break. What kind of shoes do you wear? Kay? What kind of shoes do you wear? I hope they're well supportive shoes. Nope, I wear cowboy boots. Well, there you go. You're ready to ride then. All right, cowboy boots will work. I'll take that.

We'll take cowboy boots for $100 there. All right, Kay, thank you for calling and being a blessing to this audience today and call back. Let us know how it goes, okay? This is Hope for the Caregiver. This is Peter Rosenberger. This is the show for you as a family caregiver. 888-589-8840.

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