Ending what was undoubtedly a stressful episode for the family, Miami Heat and former Florida Gators guard/forward Mike Miller and his wife Jennifer were able to bring their newborn daughter, Jaelyn, home from a South Florida hospital last Saturday.
Jaylen had spent just under two weeks in a pediatric intensive care unit because doctors found that she had five holes in her heart upon being born. Even with Jaylen on his mind, Miller has been playing a big role for Miami, which is up 2-1 in the 2011 NBA Finals against the Dallas Mavericks.
In an interesting twist to the story, Miller and his wife actually donated $1 million to a children’s hospital in his South Dakota hometown in 2007. There is a wing of the hospital called the Mike and Jennifer Miller Pediatric Intensive Care Unit. ABC told this story in a piece that ran at halftime of Sunday night’s game.
Kinda makes you believe in karma doesn’t it. I hope everything works out for the Millers. That must be an incredibly difficult situation.
Exactly.
Although I really want the Heat to lose, I’ll always root for Mike….. and Haslem.
Let’s take a bonus out of the great feature, Miller was wearing a “Florida Basketball” shirt
…. and pants. That was the first thing I picked up on too