On Christmas Eve, a local woman got a call. “Hi, you don’t know me, but I have your brother,” the caller said.
The woman’s brother, Joey, is 64 years old and has a mental disability. He works at The North Park Theater, so his sister thought he had gone there Thursday, got scared, stayed the night, and then decided to walk home.
A woman named Sha’Kyra Aughtry heard someone crying and asking for help. Her boyfriend, Trent, went outside to check and found Joey stuck in a snowbank. He picked him up and carried him inside their home.
Joey was so cold they had to cut off his socks, use a hairdryer to dry his frozen pants, and even cut the straps of a Wegmans bag from his hands.
Sha’Kyra, a mom of three, fed Joey, cleaned him up, washed his clothes, gave him warm blankets, and did everything she could to make him comfortable while trying to find help.
Sha’Kyra also had her family FaceTime Joey, which he enjoyed, to help distract him from the pain. This story is truly heartwarming.
Without Sha’Kyra, Joey might not have survived.
The frostbite on Joey’s hands was so bad it looked like it was turning gangrene. Sha’Kyra posted a message on Facebook asking for help. Kind strangers came to her house, plowed the driveway, and carried Joey outside, wrapped in a blanket, to drive him to the hospital.
Sha’Kyra went with Joey to the hospital so he wouldn’t be scared. “No one is going to hurt you, honey,” she told him as they arrived and nurses took him inside.
Joey had fourth-degree frostbite and is now in the burn unit at ECMC.
Joey’s sister says that Sha’Kyra saved her brother’s life. What she and her boyfriend did was an act of pure love.
We’ve never seen anything like this before. It’s truly incredible.
God bless Sha’Kyra.
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